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How do your stocks really perform?

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, page 27 (2004)Cite this article

Each New Year, the financial media praise and blame 12-month results for stocks, mutual funds, bonds and Tony Blair futures. Biotech investors may well pop a few corks, with the AMEX Biotechnology Index up 36% and iShares Nasdaq Biotech Index 40% higher for the year, as Nature Biotechnology goes to press.Footnote 1

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Tom Jacobs, of the Internet site Motley Fool (), provides his angle on biotechnology investments. Read on and become “Foolishly” informed * . He can be contacted about biotechnology and investing at . Jacobs cannot give individual investment advice but welcomes any.

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