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Does remind me of frequent comments on Bloomsberg that the markets don't like uncertainty?
Surely if it wasn't for stock value fluctuations due to 'uncertainty' there wouldn't be any trading and hence no opportunity to make profits?
I went away to rest for a while, came back and now there's no sound -- is that because they're on break?
Cort's twitter feed reports that their web server is being overloaded by the patients! Regardless of their decision, the FDA knows we are watching them. I hope they are at least squirming a little...
A very interesting question. The media love to portray 'the markets' as some kind of monolithic being, which of course it isn't. I'm guessing that one trader's 'uncertainty' is another trader's 'sure bet'. It also seems to me that 'uncertainty' is sometimes used as a cudgel to beat up policies and people that the establishment elite don't like.
Firestormm probably has a much better answer...
anyone know how the vote works?
I know that its not a final decision until Feb sometime but that that decision usually reflects todays vote. Does any majority vote count, or what?
the committee are talking about wanting further studies as though Hemispherx will go ahead and find the enormous amount of funding to do that when it hasn't been able to for the last whatever years. Sounds like they need the unrealisticness of that expectation rammed home.
So what just happened? this was just a recommendation and FDA need to decide now?