Morning movers in biopharmaceutical sector include: GenovaBiotherapeutics Inc. (OTCBB:GVBP) up 84% closing at $0.80, Tenet Healthcare Corp (NYSE:THC) down 0.17% trading at $5.75, Discovery Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:DSCO) down 5% trading at $1.01, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) down 7% trading at $2.54 and KERX Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:KERX) up 1.30% trading at $1.55.

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Small-cap, penny stock biopharmaceutical companies have attributed to massive payoffs when stock prices surge on news.

There are identifiable variables driving profit in the biopharmaceutical sector, for example: news of mergers & acquisitions; anticipated research and positive clinical data results; pending applications granted FDA clearance and approval; and government support.

The most recent Ernst & Young annual biotechnology report shows that mergers & acquisitions were worth $28.5 billion over the last year in the US alone. The less obvious benefit of these massive biotech deals forecast a strengthening of credit markets as bankers are willing to endorse them.

Positive clinical data is another major influence on stock appreciation, auguring high end double digit percentage gains almost immediately for penny stocks; while FDA clearance and approval exponentially increases the value of a stock as a gatekeeper to market entry internationally.

Government support and healthcare initiatives are also major drivers in the sector. At the National Academy of Sciences President Barack Obama announced the government should spend more than 3% of its GDP scientific R&D. The US has earmarked a $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal 2010 requiring the development of generic, cost effective biotech drugs that will create competition in the market as well as proposals to inhibit Big Drugs, and brand name companies from using anti-competitive agreements to keep inexpensive small cap comers off the market.

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