ILMN, FRC, SGEN & More

Offices of Illumina, in San Diego, California. Mike Blake | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. First Republic — Shares of First Republic cratered more than 64% before th...

Pfizer to purchase Seagen in $43 billion all-cash deal, cancer biotech’s stock pops 20%

Pfizer Inc. PFE, -0.18% plans to acquire cancer biotechnology company Seagen Inc. SGEN, -0.59% in a deal with a $43 billion enterprise value, the companies announced Monday morning. Pfizer intends to ...

U.S. plans to stop buying Covid shots in the fall. What that means

A pharmacist delivers a COVID-19 booster dose at a Chicago CVS store in October. Antonio Perez | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The U.S. will stop buying Covid shots at reduced price for the enti...

FDA clearance of Covid shots and treatments won’t slow with end of public health emergency

Vials and a medical syringe seen displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States logo. FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images The ...

Pfizer (PFE) Q4 earnings 2022

Vials containing the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are displayed before being used at a mobile vaccine clinic, in Valparaiso, Chile, January 3, 2022. Rodrigo Garri...

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: McDonald’s, UPS and more

Nathan Stirk | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. McDonald’s — Shares dipped more than 1% after McDonald’s reported its latest quart...

What investors need to know about Pfizer’s latest downgrade

Pfizer’s PFE, -0.92% early-stage pipeline, though promising, is still too premature to make up for the looming loss of billions of dollars from the company’s COVID-19 franchise, which includes the vac...

Chevron, Tesla, Seagate Technology, United Rentals and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Seagate Technology — Shares of the data storage company surged 10.9% a day after Seagate posted beats on the top and bottom line for its fis...

Southwest, Tesla, Las Vegas Sands

A Southwest Airlines Co. Boeing 737 passenger jet pushes back from a gate at Midway International Airport (MDW) in Chicago, Illinois. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies m...

Pfizer, Unum Group And Signature Bank

On 1/26/23, Pfizer, Unum Group, and Signature Bank will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. Pfizer Inc will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.41 on 3/3/23, Unum Group will pa...

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Roblox, Alibaba and more

Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Goldman Sachs — Shares of the Wall Street investment bank shed more than 7% after it reported its worst earnings ...

Goldman, Pfizer, Cheesecake Factory, Alibaba and more

A Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. Andy Lyons | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Goldman Sachs — The bank slid more than 2% after reporting e...

Chinese hospital says half of its staff got Covid

Locals line up for medical treatment at the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine on June 1, 2022. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — About half of the nearly 2,000 workers ...

BioNTech says it will start cancer vaccine trials in the UK from September

A NHS vaccinator administers the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster jab to a woman, at a vaccination centre in London. BioNTech is launching a large-scale trial of mRNA therapies to treat cancer and oth...

Wynn Resorts, Microsoft, Honeywell, Salesforce and more

The Wynn Resorts logo stands illuminated as people sit by the fountain at the Wynn Macau casino resort in Macau, China, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. Pual Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the c...

General Electric, Salesforce, Alibaba and more

Cincinnati – Circa September 2021: General Electric Global Operations Center. jetcityimage | iStock Editorial | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Genera...

Moderna, First Solar, Pinterest, Norwegian Cruise Line and more

Vials with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine labels are seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Check out the companies making hea...

FDA authorizes omicron vaccine for kids as young as 6 months

Oliver Harris, 9 months, cries after receiving a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, U.S., ...

Pfizer rejects Moderna claim it copied Covid vaccine, accuses rival of rewriting history

Pfizer has rejected allegations made by rival Moderna that its Covid-19 vaccine is a copy, accusing the Boston biotech company of rewriting history to lay claim to technology developed by a field of s...

We’re increasing price targets on 3 of our stocks, including 2 crushing the boarder market

Following our price target changes on eight Club holdings last month, we’re updating three more Tuesday to reflect their recent quarterly earnings reports and outlooks. Eli Lilly (LLY): Club pri...

Pfizer CEO reveals growth plan as company faces up to $18 billion revenue hit

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmac...

Uber, Abiomed, Peloton, Carvana, Molson Coors and more

A traveller waits for an Uber rider at Midway International Airport on May 09, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Uber plans to cut spending and hiring in an attempt slow the company’s plummeting stock ...

Abiomed, Uber, SoFi, Pfizer and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Abiomed (ABMD) – Abiomed stock soared 51.6% in premarket trading after agreeing to be acquired by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) in a nearly $1...

FDA sees limits to omicron-booster studies from Columbia, Harvard

The Food and Drug Administration said two studies this week showing that the new omicron boosters weren’t that much better than the old shots were too small to come to any real conclusions. Scie...

Snap, American Express, Verizon, Twitter and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Snap — Shares of the Snapchat parent company cratered 30% after missing revenue estimates and sharing its slowest sales growth since going p...

Semafor debuts in tough media environment

Ben Smith, left, and Justin Smith Source: Semafor Semafor, a new digital media company with a focus on global news for college-educated readers, debuted Tuesday with intentions to bring transparency a...

Omicron BA.5 is declining as emerging variants gain ground: CDC data

The U.S. faces at least seven different versions of Covid-19 omicron as the nation heads into winter when health officials are expecting another wave of viral infections. Although the omicron BA.5 var...

omicron shots substantially boosted BA.5 antibodies in early human data

Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Thursday said their new omicron boosters substantially increased protective antibodies against the dominant omicron B...

Covid vaccination tied to increase in length of menstrual cycle: NIH

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Va...

Moderna asks FDA to authorize omicron Covid boosters for children as young as 6 years old

Following CDC approval for vaccination of children aged 6 months to 5 years, 4 year-old Eleanor Kahn sits with her father Alex, as nurse Jillian Mercer administers the Moderna vaccine for the coronavi...

CDC panel recommends new omicron Covid boosters with shots expected to begin next week

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent committee on vaccines recommended reformulated booster shots that target the latest omicron subvariant...

U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths

People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing fo...