Health-care companies rose as traders bet earnings would be strong.
Novo Nordisk rose ahead of the Danish obesity-drug maker's earnings report.
Bayer shares slumped after the German pharmaceutical and agricultural company was ordered to pay $2.25 billion in damages in the latest setback in its legal battle over its Roundup weedkiller.
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