Health-care companies fell amid anxiety about earnings.

Pfizer shares slipped ahead of the drug giant's earnings report.

Belgian biopharmaceutical firm UCB agreed to buy Candid Therapeutics for up to $2.2 billion, part of UCB's efforts to expand a portfolio of treatments for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.


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