In this week's issue of ICIS Chemical Business:
October 12-18, 2009

Cover story

Finance troubles mean biotech is a target

Trouble attracting biotech finance has set the big pharma predators circling

 Rex Features/Chris Eyles

According to a report from US-based financial information service Thomson Reuters, investment portfolio managers have lost their tolerance for risk, and drastically tightened the criteria they use for assessing company stocks. Only a minority are willing to invest in companies with a market cap below $50m (€34m), and most are very shy of illiquid or low-cost stocks that may be at risk of delisting from the stock exchange.



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