Friday's ETF with Unusual Volume: BBH
ETF Channel Staff - Friday, October 24, 3:47 PMThe Biotech ETF (BBH) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 119,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 94,000. Shares of BBH were up about 1.5% on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Friday were Gilead Sciences (GILD), trading up about 3.6% with over 6.5 million shares changing hands so far this session, and Celgene (CELG), up about 2.4% on volume of over 3.8 million shares. Biomarin Pharma (BMRN) is the component faring the best Friday, up by about 7.9% on the day, while NPS Pharmaceuticals (NPSP) is lagging other components of the Biotech ETF, trading lower by about 2.6%.