FHLC News and Press, Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index From 06/20/19

President Trump will issue an executive order on Monday related to healthcare price transparency, according to WSJ sources . More news on: Health Care Select Sect SPDR ETF, Vanguard Health Care ETF, iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF, Healthcare stocks news, News on ETFs Read more ...

By Tony DeSpirito Markets tend to focus on one risk at a time, and it’s fragile U.S.-China relations that are front and center now. New blog contributor Tony DeSpirito offers up two potential takeaways for equity investors. Headlines over the U.S.-China trade dispute have been p...

By Marshall Gordon and Nicholas Wu, PhD Healthcare stocks normally react to political rhetoric, but the speed and magnitude of the recent correction in the sector have been surprising. Despite bipartisan clamoring for broad changes to the healthcare system and the Trump administration'...

By Andy Acker, CFA & Rich Carney, CFA A proposal to expand Medicare and eliminate private insurance in the U.S. pummeled healthcare stocks recently. Portfolio Manager Andy Acker and Research Analyst Rich Carney explain what it means for investors. It's been a tough few weeks for he...

The Dow reached a 7-month high last Thursday and Nasdaq topped 8,000 on Wednesday as both indexes (and the S&P 500) are only a little over 1% below their all-time highs, set last fall. The biggest news last week was that the Apple ([[AAPL]]) and Qualcomm ([[QCOM]]) settlement on Tues...

Since last Tuesday, when UnitedHealth Group ( UNH )’s discussion of Medicare-for-All spooked investors, health care stocks have dropped 5%, while the market was almost flat over the same time period. In our opinion, there is a good reason for healthcare investors to be fearful. We wil...

For quite some time now, I have been recommending that all investors maintain some exposure to the healthcare industry. One reason for this is the industry's overall defensive nature, which can help reduce the risk that you may be exposing yourself to via positions in more cyclical sectors. Th...

Every Thursday night, Bespoke publishes a YTD return for all 11 sectors of the S&P 500, and last Thursday night's bar chart shows that the Healthcare sector was now negative for 2019 YTD, dramatically underperforming the S&P 500 YTD. Using IBES by Refinitiv actual earnings and revenu...

As if here weren't enough things for investors to worry about, a new fear is being talked about on Wall Street. Although corporate earnings are beating expectations, financial commentators are focused on the latest weakness in the healthcare sector. With the stocks of many biotech and pharmace...

Pharmaceutical companies are continuing to defy political pressure from both Democrats and Republicans by raising the prices of almost 3,000 drugs in the U.S. in the first three months of this year. More news on: Health Care Select Sect SPDR ETF, iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF, Vanguard Hea...