WBA, EL, ALL and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Walgreens Boots Alliance — Shares dipped 1.6% after the company’s fiscal second quarter report was released. Walgreens generated $37.05 billion in…
Walgreens (WBA) earnings Q2 2024
A person rides past a Walgreens truck, owned by the Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 26, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Walgreens on Thursday…
Wall Street heads into the final March trading week with momentum on its side and Dow 40,000 in sight
Wall Street is heading into the final trading week of March with momentum on its side. All seems to be going well for markets lately. The Federal Reserve this week…
CVS, Walgreens to start selling abortion pill mifepristone this month
A container holding boxes of mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, on April 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein…
UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare cyberattack outages continue, pharmacies deploy workarounds
Change Healthcare’s systems are down for the seventh straight day after a cyber threat actor gained access to its network last week. Parent company UnitedHealth Group said most U.S. pharmacies…
Amazon is getting added to the Dow. What it means for the market benchmark
The Dow Jones Industrial Average could get a boost after online giant Amazon joins its ranks. Since 1896, the blue-chip index has made few changes to its 30-stock lineup, having…
Treasury yields pull back as big economic data releases come into view
U.S. Treasury yields were lower Wednesday as investors brace themselves for two key pieces of economic data in the second half of the week. The yield on the benchmark 10-year…
We like health-care stocks in 2024 despite presidential election year weakness
As the old Wall Street adage goes, health care tends to underperform the stock market in presidential election years — and in recent cycles, that’s been true. But, there’s reason…
Jim Cramer’s 4 stock ideas from JPMorgan Healthcare Conference
Health care may be a real challenger to tech this year, a business that can actually grow faster than most of tech and has the possibility of a comeback from…
Walgreens and 3 other health-care stocks are going into our Bullpen watch list
We’re making our first Bullpen update of 2024. The Bullpen is a collection of stocks identified by the CNBC Investing Club team as having the potential to join Jim Cramer’s…