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...

J&J stock rises after 2023 profit view tops analyst outlook

Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -0.25% stock rose 0.9% in premarket trades on Tuesday after the drug company’s profit outlook for 2023 topped analyst estimates. J&J’s fourth-quarter profit fell 25.7% t...

J&J Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.

Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato’s warning earlier this month that the outlook for 2023 remains uncertain is tempering investor expectations ahead of the company’s earnings reports on Tuesday. ...

Salesforce, Abbott, Spotify, and More Stock Market Movers

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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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The 1980s was the blueprint for the upcoming disinflation cycle and these are the stocks for it, strategists say

Stocks logged a third-straight losing session on Thursday as investors continue to deal with a mixed bag of economic data. That followed Wednesday’s session and extremely weak industrial production th...

India-Based Sun Pharma Scoops Up Concert Pharmaceuticals For $576M Plus Milestones

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, India’s top pharmaceutical company, has agreed to acquire Concert Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CNCE) for an upfront payment of $8.00 per share, or $576 mil...

CureVac Stock Just Got Upgraded. It’s Now a Competitor in mRNA Vaccines.

CureVac is ready to compete in the big leagues with its vaccines, according to a UBS analyst who says the soaring stock has more room to rise. UBS analyst Eliana Merle upgraded the shares (ticker: CVA...

How a ‘triple-barreled buy signal’ and other green flags could send the S&P 500 20% higher, says this money manager

A holiday-shortened week is looking like it will get off to a lower start, as China landed some weak growth numbers and more earnings roll out. That’s after two positive weeks to start 2023. But there...

China should set aside political issues on vaccine imports, CEO says

China needs to move past political considerations and look at importing Covid-19 jabs to end the pandemic globally, according to the chief executive of the world’s latest vaccine manufacturer. &...

Tanking Biotech Stocks Will Mean a Big Year for Deals. Who Could Benefit.

Nearly two years after biotechnology stocks began to tumble, executives at small and midsize companies in the space are finally accepting that share prices aren’t bouncing back anytime soon. With real...

Oramed’s oral insulin pill fails; stock is down 72%

Shares of Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. ORMP, -76.56% plunged 72% in premarket trading on Thursday, the day after the company told investors its oral insulin medication did not meet the primary or secon...

Bernie Sanders urges Moderna not to hike vaccine price

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine once distribution of the shots moves to the commercial market. In a letter to Moderna CEO Stephane Bance...

Sotera Health to pay $408 million to settlement allegations in Illinois

Shares of Sotera Health Co. SHC, +102.20% soared 57% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company said it will pay $408 million to settle more than 870 million legal cases in Illinois. Sotera own...

Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO

Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

Novavax’s stock rallies after the company names new CEO

Shares of Novavax Inc. NVAX, +11.25% were up about 9% in trading on Monday after the company said John Jacobs will take over as president and CEO on Jan. 23. Jacobs, the former president and CEO of Ha...

European drugmakers including AstraZeneca pony up for U.S.-listed biopharmas

European drugmakers on Monday announced a trio of deals around a billion dollars each to buy U.S.-listed biopharmas at hefty premiums. Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca AZN, +1.42%   AZN, -1.26% said it’s pay...

It’s Pharma Time: Why Merck and Lilly Stock Are Buys, but not Pfizer.

My 2023 biotech outlook calls for continued momentum in name changes. I just need to figure out what the stocks will do. Last year, Respira Technologies became Qnovia. It’s run by a former tobacco exe...

AbbVie cuts earnings forecast due to milestone payments

AbbVie Inc. executives lowered their outlook for the quarter and year in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Friday, which cited research and development expenses and milestone p...

Why Pfizer Is Pulling Back on Research Into Rare Disease, Gene Therapy

Pfizer is planning to pull back on early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases, including the development of new viral-based gene therapies, the company told employees on Thursday afternoon...

UK and France say no plans currently to follow Italy with Covid tests for China arrivals

People are seen waiting at the arrivals area of terminal 5 at Heathrow International airport. Carlos Barria | Reuters LONDON — The U.K. and France said Thursday morning they currently had no plans to ...

Kala Pharmaceuticals stock up 750% in 3 days after upbeat FDA news on PCED treatment

Shares of Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. KALA, +60.35% have rocketed higher in for three-straight sessions, toward a more-than 8-fold gain, since the biopharmaceutical company announced positive news regar...

Kala Pharmaceuticals stock rockets nearly 300% after FDA OKs IND application for PCED treatment

Shares of Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. KALA, +219.90% quadrupled in very volatile trading Wednesday, after the biopharmaceutical company said the Food and Drug Administration accepted its investigational...

Buy shares of only the strongest companies to make money in 2023, including ‘the kings of cash flow,’ says this five-star fund manager

Depending on your perspective as an investor, 2022 has either been a perfect storm or a perfect opportunity. The Federal Reserve’s rapid increase in interest rates and other tightening moves to fight ...

Morningstar’s List of Best-to-Own Healthcare Stocks

With the S&P 500 having dropped 20% so far this year, it could be a good time to scoop up some bargains in the stock market. Morningstar has put together a list of the “best stocks to own” in vari...

The Top 4 Dow Stock Winners of 2022

The Dow Jones Industrial Average  (^INDU)  began 2022 at its most robust ever. The blue chip index reached its all-time closing high at 36,799.65 points on Jan. 4, 2022. But from there, things got sha...

Stocks remain overpriced, even vs. the dot-com bubble. But you can still find good picks in these 2 sectors.

After stocks surged to their best gains in three weeks following strong consumer sentiment data, Thursday is looking less spirited with stocks in the red as we close in on the long Christmas weekend. ...

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals Stock Triples with 200% Hike on Test Results

With the FIFA season finale here’s a winner in surging as Madrigal pharmaceuticals stock price skyrocketed after its final phase study hit its goal. MDGL stock price has more than tripled as soon as M...

Cosmos Health stock nearly triples after reverse stock split, then gives it all back in late trading

Cosmos Health Inc.’s stock price nearly tripled Friday as investors responded to the company’s reverse stock split, but those gains disappeared in after-hours trading. The Chicago-based company announ...

BioNTech upgraded to buy on high hopes for combined flu/COVID vaccine and oncology pipeline

Bank of America analysts upgraded BioNTech SE stock to buy from hold on Thursday, citing excitement about its mRNA technology and the outlook for a combined flu/COVID vaccine and oncology vaccines tha...