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OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for Friday, July 17th BBYB, SGCA, FPBN, BCRX

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Our Stocks to Watch today include Baby Bee Bright Corp. (OTC: BBYB), Strategic American Oil Corp. (OTCBB: SGCA), 1st Pacific Bancorp (NASDAQ: FPBN) and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX).

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BABY BEE BRIGHT CORPORATION (OTC: BBYB)

Company Profile: http://www.otcpicks.com/baby-bee-bright/baby-bee-bright.htm

Baby Bee Bright Corporation manages the Baby Bee BrightTM brand. Its executive staff, composed of professionals with over 30 years of experience in engineering research and marketing, have developed an innovative prenatal communication system, servicing the rapidly expanding expectant mother/prenatal market. The company has a patented, audio directional technology for its communicator which is designed for expectant mothers to safely and efficiently transmit music and sound to their babies. It allows mothers and family to bond with their babies before birth. Lullabies and classical music provide the baby with soothing sounds before and after birth.

STRATEGIC AMERICAN OIL CORPORATION (OTCBB: SGCA)

Company Profile: http://www.otcpicks.com/strategic-american-oil/strategic-american-oil.htm

Strategic American Oil Corporation is an exploration and production company with operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Illinois. The company draws on the experience of an internationally recognized team of geologists, engineers, and executives with extensive oil and gas exploration and production experience. The Company's objective is to find and acquire oil and gas projects of merit and develop those projects to their full potential.

1ST PACIFIC BANCORP (NASDAQ: FPBN)
"Up 86.11% in morning trading"

1st Pacific Bank of California is a San Diego community business bank. The bank offers a full complement of business products and services to meet the financial needs of professional firms, small to mid-sized businesses, their owners and the employees who work there.

BIOCRYST PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ: BCRX)
"Up 42.18% in morning trading"

BioCryst is a biopharmaceutical company that has developed a diverse pipeline of novel therapeutics targeting major illnesses by employing crystallography and structure-based drug design. BioCryst is currently advancing investigational new drugs discovered in-house in late-stage clinical trials for influenza and lymphoma. In addition, the Company has a pre-clinical portfolio of novel compounds, directed against infectious, cardiovascular and autoimmune disease targets, to create long-term sustainable value. The Company's strategic alliances with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Green Cross Corporation and Mundipharma International Holdings Ltd. validate its scientific foundation and the utility of its product candidates.

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Forward-Looking Statement: This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.

Disclosure: OTCPicks.com has been compensated one million free trading shares by a non-controlling third party (Microcap Management) for BBYB advertising and promotional services. OTCPicks has been compensated ten thousand shares from a non-controlling third Party (Pentony Enterprises) for SGCA advertising and promotional services.

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