Health Care Down on Retreat from Biotech -- Health Care Roundup

Dow Jones04-11 05:20

Health-care companies fell as traders retreated from high-risk areas, including biotech.

Shares of Replimune Group slid after an application for an experimental skin cancer drug was rejected by the Food and Drug Administration for the second time.

The iShares Nasdaq Biotech index exchange-traded fund, a basket of major biotechs, fell by 1.6%.

Swiss drug maker Roche is likely to face currency headwinds in its earnings report, said analysts at brokerage UBS, in a note to clients.

Another Swiss drug firm, Novartis, will likely direct investors' attention to its late-stage drug pipeline, given that it has already warned of weak earnings in the first half, said the UBS analysts.

 

Write to Rob Curran at rob.curran@dowjones.com

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