Health-care companies rose as a flight from high-risk market areas such as biotechnology slowed.

The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology exchange-traded fund, a basket of biotech firms, ticked up roughly 1%, but remains in the red for the year to date.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca said it received European Union approval for its Imfinzi drug as a treatment for early-stage gastric and gastroesophageal cancers.


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