Healthcare costs continue to rise for Dow component UnitedHealth (UNH -7%), pushing its medical care ratio, or MCR, considerably higher yr/yr in Q3 and clipping the high end of its FY24 adjusted EPS ...

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ +3%) is modestly higher after reporting Q3 earnings results. The move is pretty tame considering this was JNJ's largest EPS beat in three years. Revenue rose 5.2% yr/yr to ...

[BRIEFING.COM] S&P futures vs fair value: +2.00. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: -5.00. The S&P 500 futures are up two points and are trading fractionally above fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are ...

[BRIEFING.COM] S&P futures vs fair value: +8.00. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: +51.00. The S&P 500 futures are up six points and are trading 0.1% above fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are up 51 ...

The stock market went out on a high note last week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, market cap-weighted S&P 500, equal-weighted S&P 500, and S&P Midcap 400 all hit new record highs. The Russell ...

Global contact lens supplier Bausch + Lomb (BLCO +7%) is seeing significant gains today after FT.com reported that private equity firms TPG and Blackstone (BX) are mulling a joint bid for the company.

The preliminary October University of Michigan index of Consumer Sentiment slipped to 68.9 (Briefing.com consensus 70.1) from the final reading of 70.1 for September. In the same period a year ago, ...

U.S. Treasuries are on track for a mixed start with longer tenors expected to show early relative weakness ahead of the 8:30 ET release of the PPI report for September (Briefing.com consensus 0.1%).

[BRIEFING.COM] S&P futures vs fair value: -5.00. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: -55.00. The S&P 500 futures are down five points and are trading 0.1% below fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are down ...

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U.S. Treasuries climbed on Friday, making for a rebound from their recent slide that lifted yields on longer tenors to levels not seen since the end of July as hopes for another 50-bps rate cut faded.