Continuing violence in Libya sent oil prices soaring and markets tumbling to a sharply lower close with the Dow plummeting 178 points to 12,212 over fears of an impending civil war. Nasdaq plunged 77 points to 2756.
On the upside
A Seeking Alpha article noted that Apricus Biosciences (Nasdaq: APRI) had a number of products in its pipeline with market potential.
SIGA Technologies (Nasdaq: SIGA) will respond to a new government Request for Proposal to procure 1.7 million courses of smallpox antiviral.