The Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payors Index is having its worst day in eight months on news Ohio will not renew contracts to four current Medicaid providers. Read More
Expecting Aetna and UnitedHealth to beat Wall Street estimates as health insurers kick off fourth-quarter earnings, senior analyst Peter Costa of Wells Fargo says these companies will continue their winning streak in 2012, due to rising costs, lower unemployment and even health-care reform. Read More
Consensus among investors says that European gridlock caused a flat performance in U.S. stocks this year. Late next year, however, things will turn around with or without a clear sign of economic upturn in Europe, says Joseph Duran, CEO of wealth-management firm United Capital. Read More
Aetna, with a 36 percent increase in its share price year to date, almost seems like a sure thing in the No. 20 spot in the 2011 top S&P stocks countdown. Read More
Bob Doll, BlackRock's chief equities strategist, likes health-care and technology stocks because the S&P 500 is trading in the middle of his forecasted range. Read More