Healthcare/Life Sciences

There’s still too much risk in stock and bond markets. Earn this easy 4.5% return while you wait for stability, says trader who hit 2 big calls in 2022.

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There’s still too much risk in stock and bond markets. Earn this easy 4.5% return while you wait for stability, says trader who hit 2 big calls in 2022.

Ahead of major tech earnings, Meta results are ready to light up the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.00% for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.05% is also pointing to gains as investors take a glass-half full view of the Fed meeting. Worried that investors are in the clutches of another Fed misread is the founder of LaDucTrading.com, … Read more

Pfizer Falls on Downbeat Guidance as Company Braces for Covid Vaccine Drop-Off

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Pfizer Falls on Downbeat Guidance as Company Braces for Covid Vaccine Drop-Off

Text size Pfizer said it expects Covid-19 vaccine sales to drop to $13.5 billion in 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images Pfizer on Tuesday laid out guidance for the 2023 fiscal year well below Wall Street consensus figures, tempering investor expectations ahead of what it expects to be a steep drop in Covid-19 product sales. Shares fell … Read more

J&J Can’t Use Bankruptcy to Resolve Talc-Injury Lawsuits, Appeals Court Rules

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J&J Can’t Use Bankruptcy to Resolve Talc-Injury Lawsuits, Appeals Court Rules

A federal appeals court rejected Johnson & Johnson ‘s plan to use a legal strategy to push about 38,000 talc lawsuits into bankruptcy court, hampering the controversial tactic the company and a handful of other profitable businesses have used to move mass personal-injury cases to chapter 11. The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on … Read more

CVS, Walmart to Cut Pharmacy Hours as Staffing Squeeze Continues – WSJ – The Wall Street Journal

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CVS, Walmart to Cut Pharmacy Hours as Staffing Squeeze Continues – WSJ – The Wall Street Journal

CVS, Walmart to Cut Pharmacy Hours as Staffing Squeeze Continues – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal CVS pharmacy hours reduced amid staffing shortage among pharmacists  USA TODAY Walmart, CVS Health adjust pharmacy hours amid labor crunch  CNBC CVS, Walmart to cut pharmacy hours amid labor concerns (NYSE:CVS)  Seeking Alpha CVS and Walmart to cut pharmacy hours due to labor … Read more

Elizabeth Holmes, Convicted Theranos Founder, to Be Sentenced Friday

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Elizabeth Holmes, Convicted Theranos Founder, to Be Sentenced Friday

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of disgraced blood-testing company Theranos Inc., has asked a federal judge for leniency for her fraud crimes, positioning herself as a loving mother and selfless community servant. Ms. Holmes, who has asked for a sentence of home confinement and community service, and no more than 18 months in prison, faces an … Read more

Elon Musk Says Twitter Has Had Massive Revenue Drop

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Elon Musk Says Twitter Has Had Massive Revenue Drop

Twitter Inc. has suffered “a massive drop in revenue” because of advertisers cutting back on using the social-media platform, new owner Elon Musk said Friday, as the company started sweeping layoffs just over a week after the billionaire took it over. Mr. Musk, in a tweet Friday, blamed the cutback in advertising on “activist groups … Read more

China Agrees to Approve BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine for Foreigners, German Chancellor Says

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China Agrees to Approve BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine for Foreigners, German Chancellor Says

SINGAPORE—China agreed to approve BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccines for foreign residents, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Beijing Friday, in what would mark the first approval of an mRNA vaccine for Covid-19 for use in China. Mr. Scholz and Chinese leader Xi Jinping also discussed a pathway for approving the BioNTech vaccine for the broader … Read more

General Mills, Audi and Pfizer Join Growing List of Companies Pausing Twitter Ads

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General Mills, Audi and Pfizer Join Growing List of Companies Pausing Twitter Ads

Some advertisers are concerned that Mr. Musk could scale back content moderation, which they worry would lead to an increase in objectionable content on the platform. Others are temporarily halting their ads because of the uncertainty at the company as top executives exit and Mr. Musk considers a raft of changes, some of the people … Read more

What neuroscientists have learned about rejuvenating the aging brain—and what you can do too

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What neuroscientists have learned about rejuvenating the aging brain—and what you can do too

We all understand that no magic elixir can stop or even slow the human brain or skeletal muscles from aging. But is that true? After two decades of research with mice, Tony Wyss-Coray, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Stanford University, has some ideas about what might work. Follow-up trials with humans have indeed demonstrated the possibilities. What … Read more

This reliable indicator of recession has yet to buckle, and so the Fed won’t either, strategist says

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This reliable indicator of recession has yet to buckle, and so the Fed won’t either, strategist says

As the Fed kicks off its two-day interest-rate setting meeting, the focus is on whether Jerome Powell & Co. stick to their hawkish tone or indicate the pace of rate hikes may slow down. Certainly, there’s valid reason for at least slowing down, after another jumbo rate hike is delivered on Wednesday. Inflation at a … Read more