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U.S. stocks traded mixed midway through trading, with the Dow Jones falling more than 50 points on Wednesday.
The Dow traded down 0.19% to 33,674.66 while the NASDAQ rose 0.18% to 13,586.67. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.12% to 4,353.19.
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Real estate shares surged by 0.9% on Wednesday.
In trading on Wednesday, energy shares fell by 1.9%.
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Producer prices in the U.S. increased 0.5% month-over-month in September, versus a 0.7% rise in the prior month, but above market expectations of 0.3%.
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Tempest Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPST) shares shot up 1942% to $4.90 after the company released new data demonstrating superiority of TPST-1120 arm across multiple study endpoints in first-line hepatocellular carcinoma study.
Shares of Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ: PHIO) got a boost, shooting 59% to $2.16 after the company announced the poster presentation of two key preclinical studies of its INTASYL compound PH-894 at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer ...