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Jefferies Stocks to Buy: Big Gains in Life Sciences and Diagnostics

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 8:00 am

In theory, medical technology companies should be some of the market’s best-performing stocks. After all, it’s not really a cyclical business, and price tags are rarely a stumbling block when ...
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Deutsche Bank Raises Targets and Estimates on Hospitals and Health Care Facility Stocks (DB, THC, HCA, VHS, CYH, HMA, UHS, LPNT)

Posted: January 31, 2013 at 8:31 am

Hospitals and health care facilities to most of us are like the police station. You are glad they are there, but you don’t really want to go. When it comes ...
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Jefferies Top Global Pharmaceutical Stock Picks for 2013 (JEF, ABBV, NVS, SNY, PFE)

Posted: January 17, 2013 at 8:29 am

After a strong year of relative performance for pharmaceutical stocks in 2012, the analysts at Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) predict that 2013 could show more of the same. However ...
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Walmart Looking at Health Insurance Exchange

Posted: January 14, 2013 at 10:40 am

Retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is exploring the possibility of offering health insurance to small-business owners by setting up a health insurance exchange. The exchanges, which were created ...
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UnitedHealth Forecast Disappoints

Posted: November 26, 2012 at 10:29 am

In an announcement for its annual investor conference tomorrow, UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) reaffirmed its earnings per share (EPS) forecast for 2012 at $5.20 to $5.25. But in its ...
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2012 Election Winners and Losers: Coal, Dividends, Health Care, Utilities, Oil and More

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 8:10 am

Election Day has come and gone. President Obama won a second term. The current electoral vote was by a margin of about 3 to 2 (unofficial), but the percentage last ...
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Wellpoint Acquisition a Vote on Obamacare

Posted: July 9, 2012 at 7:50 am

Health insurance provider Wellpoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) announced this morning that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire managed care provider Amerigroup Corp. (NYSE: AGP) for a total of ...
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Retail, Restaurant Stocks Down on Obamacare Ruling (LULU, ROST, WMT, TGT, HD, CMG, MCD, YUM, SBUX)

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 2:55 pm

In what might seem to be an anomaly, retail stocks are getting dumped on today following the US Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Obamacare. An retail group, the Retail Industry Leaders ...
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Supreme Court Rules on Healthcare, The Fallout By Sector (Updated)

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 10:38 am

Thursday was D-Day for the Supreme Court decision on the Obama healthcare mandate as to its constitutionality. The long and short of it is that the mandate is constitutional as ...
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Ten States Dying for Health Coverage

Posted: June 26, 2012 at 5:42 am

The lack of medical coverage in America is a serious problem as approximately 50 million people were uninsured all through 2010. But the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the ...
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UnitedHealth to Continue Obamacare Provisions

Posted: June 11, 2012 at 7:35 am

Saying that certain requirements of Obamacare “make sense,” the CEO of UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) today announced that the insurer would continue to offer “important health care insurance protections” ...
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Supreme Court Tackles Individual Mandate

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 12:54 pm

The US Supreme Court this morning listened to arguments related to the individual mandate provision of the health care reform act, or Obamacare. The court has three clear options: one, ...
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Austerity Watch 3/23/11 Update: Portugal Government Falters

Posted: March 23, 2011 at 6:24 pm

Austerity Watch Daily covers critical news about national sovereign debt,  Credit Default Swaps, state and municipal deficit actions, and discussions about the US deficit and debt. Late today, Portugal's prime ...
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