UnitedHealth Group

Wall Street experienced a resurgence in risk appetite on Thursday as optimism grew around trade negotiations. President Donald Trump expressed confidence in reaching agreements with both the European Union and China. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.3% to close at 39,142.23....

U.S. stock futures slipped Tuesday night, amid fresh tariff-related uncertainties and headwinds for semiconductors spooking tech stocks, as investors await crucial retail sales data and more prominent earnings this week. The S&P 500 Futures are down 0.88%, trading at 5,380, followed by the tech...

The alleged murderer of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) CEO Brian Thompson has been transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. What Happened: The detention facility is also home to high-profile inmates, including convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, who is...

Looking for broad exposure to the Healthcare - Healthcare - Providers segment of the equity market? You should consider the iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (ETF:IHF), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on 05/01/2006. Retail and institutional investors increasingly turn to...

U.S. stocks were mixed on Thursday as the Dow Jones index traded lower by 206 points before recouping most of these losses. However, the index closed the day in negative territory for the sixth straight day, despite encouraging U.S. labor data being reported. Speaking to Bloomberg, St. Louis...

U.S. stocks sold off after news reports began to surface that a Malaysian Airlines jet has crashed in Ukraine. While details have yet to be confirmed, a Ukraine minister claimed that the plane, which carried nearly 300 people, was shot down by rebels. Also not helping the market sentiment...

Analysts believe that Medtronic (NYSE: MDT), Teva Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: TEVA), UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Zimmer Holdings (NYSE: ZMH) shares still have some headroom, though they all have handily outperformed the S&P 500 over the past six months. They are all dividend payers as well....

U.S. stocks rose as investors cheered recent earning reports and a positive home sales data for March. A $45 billion M&A offer also contributed to Tuesday's buying action as investors could be excited and motivated to buy stocks ahead of a few rough weeks of bearish activity. The S&P...

U.S. stocks rose as investors felt that earnings season is positive enough so far to reverse weakness the markets have seen in recent weeks. "Investors were braced for poor results, and at least so far, the numbers have been better than feared. We'll have a little more information to act on...

The new earnings season kicks into high gear this shortened week. Highlights will include quarterly reports from Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, from Intel and IBM, and from Coca-Cola, which are all expected to post earnings declines, as well as from Google and Johnson & Johnson...

The earnings season ramps up this week, providing plenty of perspective on how the financial and technology sectors fared in the second quarter. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Intel (NYSE: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and many...

Have you ever woken up to find that a stock in your portfolio made a dramatic move overnight? Are you interested in learning how to understand each day's post-market and pre-market moves? Veteran traders Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick will give you all of the insights that you'll need to get in on...

This weekend in Barron's online: profiles of five multiple-asset mutual funds for diversifying sources of yield, a mid-year review of Barron's stock picks and the prospects for the Dell buyout and the new earnings season. Cover Story "The New Breed of Income Fund" by Reshma Kapadia. Investors...

It is not unusual for stocks on a tear to overrun their mean price targets, which is a signal of how far analysts on average expect the share price to climb. Some of the top-performing health care stocks over the past six months that pay dividends, such as Becton, Dickinson (NYSE: BDX), Bristol-...

The earnings crunch is on this week, with first-quarter results due from such iconic blue chips as Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and Microsoft. Analysts expect to see year-over-year earnings growth from each of them, but earnings declines from Intel,...