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BioMarin Stock Hits High On Dwarfism Drug Success

Big-cap biotech BioMarin Pharmaceuticals (BMRN) got a host of price target increases and hit a new high in early trading Thursday after it reported success in a trial of a dwarfism drug late Wednesday. BioMarin said its drug vosoritide, or BMN-111, had yielded a 50% improvement in annual growth velocity in a phase-two study of children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism. No serious adverse events were reported. The company will

Disney, Warner Bros. Pump Special-Accessory Games

Disney (DIS) and Time Warner’s (TWX) Warner Bros. are leveraging their box office hits for interactive video games that require the purchase of special-accessory toys. Warner’s “Lego Dimensions” game — which features characters from “The Lord of the Rings,” “Batman,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Back to the Future” and more — is “the first true toys-to-life experience,” according to spokesman Mark Warburton. The Lego game pieces can be manipulated to

Apple Watch Rival Fitbit Prices Year’s Top Tech IPO

Fitbit (FIT) set a record as the largest tech IPO this year, raising $732 million with its initial public offering that priced late Wednesday, a sign of investor confidence in the wearables firm even amid growing competition from the Apple (AAPL) Watch and others. Fitbit, the leading maker of wearable health and fitness trackers priced 36.6 million shares, 2.1 million more than planned, at 20, above the upwardly revised range of 17 to 19. That