Nasdaq News

While the S&P 500 includes industry leaders, not every stock in the index is a winner. Some companies are past their prime, weighed down by poor execution, weak financials, or structural headwinds.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-p-500-stock-long-130231977.html?.tsrc=rss

UnitedHealth Group (UNH) cut its annual forecast and reported its first earnings miss in over a decade, causing shares of major health insurers to plummet.

Hertz (HTZ) soared as much as 40% in premarket trading on Thursday, set to extend Wednesday’s record 56% rally, after CNBC reported that Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square holds about a 19.8% stake in the beleaguered rental-car company. 

Eli Lilly (LLY) shares rose on news that the company’s experimental weight-loss pill, orforglipron, worked as well as the Ozempic shot in a trial, bringing it closer to developing a needle-free alternative.

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) climbed after the chipmaker forecast sales for the second quarter that beat the average analyst estimate. The company kept its growth outlook for 2025 on expectations of AI revenue doubling. (Source: Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-17/unitedhealth-group-falls-hertz-eli-lilly-rise-video
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2025-04-17T13:47:10.000Z

US stocks look set to open mixed in Thursday’s trading session as jobless claims came in lower thanhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-set-open-mixed-130029932.html?.tsrc=rss

A double-digit selloff in UnitedHealth Group Inc. is dragging down the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, pushing it toward a day of historical underperformance.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-17/dow-industrial-set-for-a-historical-divergence-with-the-s-p-500
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2025-04-17T13:05:40.000Z

The U.S. government’s tariff imposition, especially on China, is likely to keep supply chains under pressure for the Zacks Medical Products industry. PODD, MGNX, CLRB and ALUR are likely to gain from the favorable factors.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-medical-product-stocks-buy-125200583.html?.tsrc=rss

President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s termination from his position can’t come quickly enough, arguing that the US central bank should have lowered interest rates already this year, and in any case should do so now. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Thursday morning that “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!” Bloomberg’s Tyler Kendall reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-17/trump-says-powell-s-termination-can-t-come-fast-enough-video
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2025-04-17T13:00:55.000Z

Through Wednesday’s close, the S&P 500 was down nearly 11% in 2025, and the Nasdaq Composite has been on an even steeper fall — crashing around 16% since January. A couple of Vanguard funds that investors may want to consider adding to their portfolios today are the Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF (NYSEMKT: VPU) and the Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF (NYSEMKT: VDC), two ETFs that focus on sectors with particular resistance to recessionary pressures. Whether you’re looking at investments to hang on to for the long term or just for some safety in the short run, here’s why these can be attractive funds to load up on right now.https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/04/17/buy-these-2-vanguard-etfs-for-long-term-safety-ami/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host-full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article&referring_guid=88ddd6ee-29ac-4dca-9fbe-7291fd86f674&.tsrc=rss

When students from Village School head to their classroom in Santa Monica wearing their red school-branded T-shirts, they file past a pair of Chevy Corvettes that hang from the lobby ceiling and wait for an elevator upstairs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-17/fire-wrecked-la-schools-find-classrooms-in-empty-office-cubicles
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2025-04-17T13:00:00.000Z