Health-care companies rose as traders rotated into sectors less susceptible to changes in inflation and interest-rate trends.
Shares of Pfizer rose sharply, as upward momentum in Big Pharma companies built. Eli Lilly added to recent gains.
Shares of UniQure plunged after the gene-therapy company reported data from the first four subjects in an early-stage trial of its Huntington's disease treatment.
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
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