Amgen's most recent trend suggests a bullish bias. One trading opportunity on Amgen is a Bull Put Spread using a strike $115.00 short put and a strike $105.00 long put offers a potential 13.77% return on risk over the next 19 calendar days. Maximum profit would be generated if the Bull Put Spread were to expire worthless, which would occur if the stock were above $115.00 by expiration. The full premium credit of $1.21 would be kept by the premium seller. The risk of $8.79 would be incurred if the stock dropped below the $105.00 long put strike price.
The 5-day moving average is moving up which suggests that the short-term momentum for Amgen is bullish and the probability of a rise in share price is higher if the stock starts trending.
The 20-day moving average is moving up which suggests that the medium-term momentum for Amgen is bullish.
The RSI indicator is at 70.27 level which suggests that the stock is neither overbought nor oversold at this time.
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LATEST NEWS for Amgen
ASCO 2014: Doubling Down on Next-Gen Cancer Drugs
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:24:31 GMT
Amgen Presents New Data On Talimogene Laherparepvec As Single Agent And Combination Therapy In Metastatic Melanoma At ASCO
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:44:00 GMT
PR Newswire – THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Amgen (AMGN) today announced new data from two key clinical trials that support the potential of talimogene laherparepvec, a novel, investigational oncolytic immunotherapy, as both a single agent and as part of a combination regimen in patients with metastatic melanoma. The findings were presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. Data from the 19 patients in the Phase 1b combination study, presented for the first time at ASCO, showed no dose-limiting toxicities with talimogene laherparepvec in combination with ipilimumab (Abstract #9029). Additionally, tumors either shrank in size or were no longer detectable in 56 percent of patients when talimogene laherparepvec was given prior to and in combination with ipilimumab.
1:32 am Amgen highlights Phase 2 results Of Vectibix versus bevacizumab in combination with FOLFOX in patients with wild-type RAS metastatic colorectal cancer
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:32:00 GMT
Amgen's evolocumab reduces ‘bad' cholesterol in patients with HoFH
Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:15:43 GMT
New Detailed Phase 3 Data Show Amgen's Novel Investigational Cholesterol-Lowering Medication Evolocumab Significantly Reduced LDL Cholesterol In Patients With A Rare And Serious Genetic Disorder That Causes High Cholesterol
Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:11:00 GMT
PR Newswire – THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Amgen (AMGN) today announced new detailed data from the Phase 3 TESLA study evaluating its novel investigational cholesterol-lowering medication, evolocumab (AMG 145), in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), a rare and serious genetic disorder characterized by extremely high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), or “bad” cholesterol, and premature cardiovascular disease.1 Phase 3 data from the TESLA study showed that adding evolocumab 420 mg subcutaneous monthly to a stable dose of statin therapy and other lipid-lowering medications significantly reduced LDL-C by 31 percent (p<0.001) from baseline at week 12 compared to placebo. Results from the TESLA study, along with preliminary findings from the Phase 2/3 TAUSSIG study in patients with severe familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), were presented today in a Clinical & Late-Breaking Session at the 82nd Congress of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS 2014).
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