But what is good news for patients makes for a tricky situation for ImClone and its partner Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
Monday's session also featured what traders are referring to as a "bad news is good news" dynamic in the market.
Jim, well, what about there's a way that this bad news is good in a sense, because I recall, over the summer, part of the great uncertainty, part of the reason there was a crisis is that nobody seemed to know how much money was being lost and how much risk was out there.
The finding has been greeted with some caution, and Nature News carries a good discussion of arguments over what might lie behind it.
What matters is that if news is sufficiently good or bad to catapult a company onto a magazine cover, then it is already reflected in the share price.
The good news is that below a certain size, depending on what they're made of, some near-Earth asteroids don't pose any danger, burning up as they pass through the atmosphere.
However, it is possible to have a sense of what countries like Guatemala are experiencing, and this is not good news, not for the country's citizens and not for the United States.
Dr. THOMMES: And this fact that we are a later generation is probably also good news for our existence here, because what observers have been finding is that it is the more metal-rich stars that are seem to be more likely to have planets orbiting them.
The good news is that Congress has found it easy to form a coalition with what looks like a stable parliamentary majority.
It is hardly a revelation anymore that the media play the news in subtle but tilted ways to protect what they think is a settled social good, such as access to abortion, no matter what.
For a good summary of what was at stake, read this piece by Julie Appleby in Kaiser Health News.
Now for the good news: in a world with more madness than method, employers still know what they want when they see it.
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Exactly what will trigger this move is not known just now, but markets often have a tendency to interpret even good news as bad because most of the good news is already discounted.
The good news is we have a containment architecture that we believe is likely to contain all of what could come out of that well.
What is it about the economic recovery so far that allows good news to last for only six months at a time before fears rise again, and the economy needs another adrenaline fix from the Fed?
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