Moderna Stock Plunges 25%—Wiping Out $18 Billion
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Shares of Moderna rocketed by 93% to around $121.90 on Wednesday, pacing what would be the stock’s best-ever trading session after surging by more than 100% in premarket trading. That came after Moderna and Merck announced their personalized cancer vaccine helped cut the recurrence of melanoma—a form of skin cancer—in a late-stage trial involving more than 1,
Moderna stock surged on Phase 3 mRNA cancer vaccine results with Merck, breaking key moving averages and hitting record RSI.
Shares of biotechnology company Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) fell 20% in the morning session after investors took profits as the stock surged over 175% in the previous session on positive clinical trial news.
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Moderna MRNA stock fell 20%% to $138, compared with Wednesday’s close of $174.38. The decline followed a more than doubling of the shares on August 19 after Moderna and Merck announced positive results from the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 study of their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, intismeran autogene.