Biotech and Pharma


Tesla, Paramount Skydance, Medline, Oracle, Lennar, Micron, Hut 8, and More Stock Market Movers

Tesla drops after setting a record closing high, while Lennar tumbles following weak earnings for the home builder.

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CDC Changes Tack on Hepatitis B Shots in Shakeup of Vaccine Policy

The decision comes less than two weeks after a committee of advisers to the agency, whom Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed this year, voted to change their decades-old guidance.

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Tesla, Pfizer, Humana, Broadcom, IonQ, Ford, Navan, and More Stock Market Movers

Shares of Tesla close on a record high.

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Pfizer CEO Defends Vaccines, Promises Growth by End of Decade

Pfizer expects revenue and earnings to fall in 2026.

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Kymera Had a Big Week. This Secretive Hedge Fund Bought $172 Million of Its Stock.

Baker Brothers Advisors has been buying up shares of companies in the biopharma and biotech space.

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Novo Nordisk Is Selling Ozempic for $24 a Week in India. Why It's So Cheap.

Americans without health insurance could be paying more than 10 times as much for the weight-loss drugs.

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Eli Lilly's Latest Obesity Drug Delivers Strong Results. It Might Work Too Well.

The company said some patients had dropped out of the trial because they felt they were losing too much weight.

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Microsoft, Broadcom, Lilly, and Other Stocks That Define ‘Quality’ for This Pro

Tom Hancock, a portfolio manager at GMO, favors companies that consistently earn a high return on capital and reinvest in the business.

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The Fed’s Divided on Rates. Why Stock Markets Can Rise Through 2026 Anyway.

What a SpaceX IPO could mean for Tesla shareholders, Pfizer pursuing next weight-loss drug in Chinese labs, more news to start your day.

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Cancer Study Buoys These Small Biotechs

Terns Pharmaceuticals shares jumped as much as 50% on news that cancer cell counts fell over 99% in nearly three-fourths of leukemia patients treated with the firm’s once-daily pill.

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Pfizer Turns to China for Trial Weight Loss Drug. Congress Is Worried About Chinese Biotechs.

Big American drugmakers are hunting for novel weight loss drugs in the labs of China’s biotech industry, while U.S. authorities try to undercut the growing Chinese biotech sector.

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Kymera Therapeutics Stock Heads for Record. Why Investors Are Excited by Its Anti-Inflammatory Drug.

The biopharma company is counting on KT-621 to treat patients with Type 2 inflammatory diseases.

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Obesity Biotechs’ Gains Hit Shares of Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk

Data from Structure Therapeutics and WAVE Life Sciences show that threats to the incumbents’ dominance are on the way.

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The Biotech Industry Is Healthier Than Investors Think. These Are the Stocks to Watch.

RA Capital Management’s Peter Kolchinsky says the companies that survived the industry’s 2021 rout are thriving—and looking to make deals.

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Bristol Myers Squibb Stock Climbs on Alzheimer’s Trial Update. What to Know.

The drugmaker is testing its antipsychotic drug Cobenfy for the treatment of psychosis associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

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DexCom Stock Upgraded. How the Glucose Monitor Maker Is ‘Turning a Corner.’

Morgan Stanley upgrades shares of the medtech to Overweight from Equal Weight.

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Janux Therapeutics Stock Craters After ‘Positive’ Cancer Data. Why It’s Down 50%.

Janux posts what it called ‘positive trial data’ for its novel treatment in patients with late-stage prostate cancer.

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Vertiv and 3 More Stocks That Could Be Added to the S&P 500 in Friday Rebalancing

Those four companies, culled from a list drawn up by KBW analyst Shreyank Gandhi, are among the largest not in the index.

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Moderna and Novavax Stocks Drop as FDA Outlines Stricter Vaccine Approvals

The FDA’s top vaccine regulator outlines proposed changes to the vaccine evaluation process in an internal memo.

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Western Digital and 6 More Stocks That Survived the AI Selloff and Could Be Worth Buying

Investors will be weighing up how to shield their portfolios in case the rebound loses steam. These stocks look tempting.

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Staar Surgical, Gold Royalty See Activist Action

Activists also report to the SEC on Acadia Healthcare, Butterly Network, National Energy Services Reunited, and Invivyd.

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FDA Decision Opens Bigger Market for Novartis's Blockbuster Gene Therapy

Zolgensma is only approved for infants with spinal muscular atrophy. Older people will be able to use a new version of the treatment, called Itvisma.

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Novo Nordisk Stock Jumps on Positive Weight-Loss Drug Data. Why It Deserves Better.

Shares, though, were punished Monday after the drug maker said its blockbuster obesity treatment Wegovy failed to slow Alzheimer’s.

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Novo Nordisk’s Alzheimer’s Trials Were a Long Shot. Their Failure Is Still Hitting the Stock.

The drugmaker says an oral version of Wegovy improved Alzheimer’s-related biomarkers, but didn’t delay the disease’s progression.

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