Experts hesitate on weight loss ETFs amid the obesity drug boom

Experts hesitate on weight loss ETFs amid the obesity drug boom

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE There may be a stronger case to invest in single stocks over exchange-traded funds in the weight loss space. Amplify ETFs and Roundhill Investments each filed a prospectus last week to launch funds focused on weight loss companies, a move that Strategas ETF and technical strategist … Read more

Here are the big health sector themes to watch next year

Here are the big health sector themes to watch next year

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An employee works on the production line of pharmaceutical company Zentiva in Prague, Czech Republic, May 6, 2021. David W. Cerny | Reuters The health-care sector has wiped out much of its losses for the year during the December market rally. Beaten-down biotech and medical device … Read more

How Ozempic and Wegovy turned Novo Nordisk into a $400 billion company

How Ozempic and Wegovy turned Novo Nordisk into a 0 billion company

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has entered a new chapter in its 100-year history — thanks to its newfound success with two products: Ozempic and Wegovy.  The drugs are once-weekly injectables of a medication called semaglutide, prescribed for Type 2 diabetes and weight loss. Their skyrocketing popularity … Read more

Health insurance stocks fell after UnitedHealth warned that more surgeries would drive up medical costs

Health insurance stocks fell after UnitedHealth warned that more surgeries would drive up medical costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Shares of health insurers fell on Wednesday after UnitedHealth Group pointed out to higher ups medical expenses as older Americans start catching up they are in surgery with delay during the Covid pandemic. Shares of UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health care provider by market value, fell … Read more

How UnitedHealth Group Became Bigger Than the Nation’s Biggest Banks

How UnitedHealth Group Became Bigger Than the Nation’s Biggest Banks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE UnitedHealth Group has the highest price per share of any company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is the tenth-heaviest stock on the S&P 500. In fact, UnitedHealth is not only the largest healthcare conglomerate in the United States by market cap and revenue, it’s … Read more

Carl Icahn slams Illumina for nearly doubling CEO pay despite plummeting market value

Carl Icahn slams Illumina for nearly doubling CEO pay despite plummeting market value

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Carl Icahn speaks at Delivering Alpha in New York on September 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn damn it Illumina for nearly doubling its CEO’s pay last year despite the biotech company’s dramatic drop in market value since the controversial deal. “I would … Read more

Ilumina urges shareholders to reject Carl Icahn’s board nominees as proxy battle heats up

Ilumina urges shareholders to reject Carl Icahn’s board nominees as proxy battle heats up

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Illumina urged shareholders on Thursday to reject Carl Icahn’s three board nominees at this year’s annual meeting, saying they would “jeopardize the progress” of the biotech company’s core business. “Carl Icahn’s involvement with Illumina threatens the company’s long-term success, … Read more

Carl Icahn wants to bring back former Illumina CEO ‘immediately’ as battle for brokers intensifies

Carl Icahn wants to bring back former Illumina CEO ‘immediately’ as battle for brokers intensifies

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Carl Icahn speaks at Delivering Alpha in New York on September 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn said Wednesday the biotech company Illumina should “immediately” bring back its former CEO, its latest move va a battle for middlemen ensues with a biotechnology company. … Read more

Shares of BioNTech slipped on gloomy outlook for Covid vaccine sales

Shares of BioNTech slipped on gloomy outlook for Covid vaccine sales

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vials of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are shown before use at a mobile vaccine clinic in Valparaiso, Chile, on January 3, 2022. Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters Company shares BioNTech slipped more than 6% in morning trading on Monday after the German drugmaker … Read more

Sanofi and Regeneron shares rise more than 6% after data suggests asthma drug Dupixent can also treat COPD

Sanofi and Regeneron shares rise more than 6% after data suggests asthma drug Dupixent can also treat COPD

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The logo at the Sanofi booth at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 15, 2022. Benoît Tessier | Reuters Company shares Sanofi and Regeneron both jumped more than 6% on Thursday, … Read more

Biotech company Illumina is refusing to fight Carl Icahn’s proxy over the $7.1 billion Grail deal

Biotech company Illumina is refusing to fight Carl Icahn’s proxy over the .1 billion Grail deal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Carl Icahn Adam Jeffery | CNBC A biotech company Illumina on Monday fended off a fight against Carl Icahn’s agent over a takeover of cancer test developer Grail, saying candidates for the activist investor’s board “do not add value.” A DNA sequencing company based in San … Read more

Shares of Moderna rose 7% after Cowen raised the stock and said it would be a “leader” in RSV vaccines

Shares of Moderna rose 7% after Cowen raised the stock and said it would be a “leader” in RSV vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a syringe of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Manhattan, New York, on January 29, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters Shares of Moderna jumped nearly 7% on Wednesday after … Read more

China’s Covid wave is fueling consumer interest in insurance after failings in the healthcare system

China’s Covid wave is fueling consumer interest in insurance after failings in the healthcare system

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Chuiyangliu Hospital, pictured in January 2023 in Beijing, has completed renovations over the past few years that have allowed for a sixfold increase in daily patents to 5,000 a day, according to official estimates. Yin Hon Chow | CNBC BEIJING – At the top of the … Read more

A Chinese hospital says half of its staff have contracted the virus

A Chinese hospital says half of its staff have contracted the virus

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Locals line up for treatment at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Beijing on June 1, 2022. CANJSKA PHOTOGRAPHY | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING – About half of the nearly 2,000 workers at Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine contracted Covid-19 during the latest … Read more

Shares of a China-based funeral company are rising on a rise in Covid infections

Shares of a China-based funeral company are rising on a rise in Covid infections

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Workers in protective gear attend to a coffin and coffin box at the Dongjiao Funeral Parlor, which is said to be used to handle Covid-19 deaths, in Beijing, China, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hong Kong-listed shares of China’s largest operator … Read more

China to lift quarantine on international travelers in essential no-Covid end

China to lift quarantine on international travelers in essential no-Covid end

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Passenger planes sit on the runway at Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai on November 4, 2022, before China lifted travel restrictions related to Covid. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING – China announced late Monday that travelers will no longer need to quarantine … Read more

China continues the long road of reopening due to Covid

China continues the long road of reopening due to Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A main road in Shanghai is empty during the Thursday evening rush hour. December 22, 2022, in the midst of a wave of covid infections. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — It’s been about two weeks since mainland China abruptly lifted most … Read more

China may not make major changes to its Covid policy anytime soon, despite protests over the weekend

China may not make major changes to its Covid policy anytime soon, despite protests over the weekend

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A couple passes emergency items over a Covid barrier in Guangzhou on November 17, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING – China is unlikely to make any major changes in its anti-covid policy in the near future despite protests this weekend, analysts … Read more

Protests erupt across China against Covid controls

Protests erupt across China against Covid controls

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Demonstrators against Covid restrictions hold blank sheets of paper during a protest in Beijing in the early hours of Monday, November 28. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING – Rare protests erupted across China over the weekend as groups of people voiced their frustration over … Read more

The total daily number of covid cases in mainland China has risen above the highs in Shanghai

The total daily number of covid cases in mainland China has risen above the highs in Shanghai

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Only a few vehicles, including one carrying two medical workers, drive through Beijing’s central business district on November 23, 2022, as the area announced tighter Covid controls. Kevin Frayer | News Getty Images | Getty Images BEIJING – Mainland China reported more than 31,000 Covid infections … Read more

China shortens quarantine period due to covid by two days

China shortens quarantine period due to covid by two days

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The covid outbreak in China is the worst in about half a year. Residents of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, are shown here lining up for regular virus testing in their community on November 10, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING – China has … Read more

The covid outbreak is worsening in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou

The covid outbreak is worsening in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The city of Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong is the most affected in the latest outbreak of Covid. This picture shows closed shops in a part of the city on October 31, 2022. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING – Covid … Read more

Covid cases, control spreads in China

Covid cases, control spreads in China

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Covid cases and surveillance increased in China this month. Pictured on Oct. 27, 2022 is a neighborhood in Shanghai that has been cordoned off for Covid control. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING – China’s Covid surveillance has tightened over the past two … Read more

Jim Cramer says to buy Danaher stock on the dip

Jim Cramer says to buy Danaher stock on the dip

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CNBC’s Jim Cramer advised investors to add on Friday Danaher on its shopping lists for next week after it reports its third-quarter results. “Now you have an opportunity to buy one of the best-run companies in the world at a deep discount. I think you should … Read more

dr. Oz owns shares in companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has championed as a covid cure

dr.  Oz owns shares in companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has championed as a covid cure

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has financial ties to at least two pharmaceutical companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug he has touted as a possible treatment for Covid-19. Oz, a physician and veteran TV host who is facing Democrat John Fetterman in the … Read more

The city of Beijing is tightening requirements for a covid vaccine as the number of cases rises across the country

The city of Beijing is tightening requirements for a covid vaccine as the number of cases rises across the country

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Chinese cities such as Beijing, pictured on July 6, 2022, require negative tests for the virus in the past 72 hours to enter most public spaces. Kevin Frayer | News Getty Images | Getty Images BEIJING – China’s capital is set to require Covid vaccinations to … Read more

Several parts of China are grappling with covid and threats of lockdown as cases rise again

Several parts of China are grappling with covid and threats of lockdown as cases rise again

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Covid-19 restrictions have been tightened in parts of China as local cases have surged, while in Shanghai, pictured July 3, 2022, more relaxed measures such as virus testing remain in place. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING – Just a few days after China … Read more

China is trying to suppress Covid as Beijing and Shanghai reintroduce some restrictions

China is trying to suppress Covid as Beijing and Shanghai reintroduce some restrictions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People are waiting in line for nucleic acid tests to detect COVID-19 at a testing site on June 9, 2022 in Beijing, China. China says it has generally controlled recent outbreaks in Beijing after hundreds of people tested positive for the virus in recent weeks. Kevin … Read more

The market has just published an unhealthy comparison of AOL-Time Warner bubbles

The market has just published an unhealthy comparison of AOL-Time Warner bubbles

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Teladoc Television Trolley, which allows doctors to meet their patients remotely, October 8, 2021. Newsday LLC | News Getty Images This week’s earnings details included some big calculations of the value of high-growth, high-tech and high-risk companies. Ford and Amazon are recording stakes in electric vehicle … Read more

Chinese leaders cling to Covid’s control as virus spreads and forces Beijing’s luxury shopping mall to close temporarily

Chinese leaders cling to Covid’s control as virus spreads and forces Beijing’s luxury shopping mall to close temporarily

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The major shopping center for luxury goods Beijing CAP, shown here in 2021, said on Friday it would close – without a reopening date – after the city confirmed three cases of Covid in a nearby residential community. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING … Read more

China’s capital draws attention to several Covid cases and launches mass testing in central business district

China’s capital draws attention to several Covid cases and launches mass testing in central business district

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Chinese capital, Beijing, reported an increase in Covid cases over the weekend, and began mass testing in the Chaoyang business district on Monday. In the county, one community shown here is classified as a high-risk area. Jiang Qiming | China News Service Getty Images BEIJING … Read more

Covida’s Chinese policy is locking up a city three times the size of New York City

Covida’s Chinese policy is locking up a city three times the size of New York City

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Huangpu River divides the Chinese city of Shanghai between an older settlement in the west and a newer financial center in the east. Johannes Eisele Afp | Getty Images The last Chinese wave of restrictions on Covid has forced millions of people – about three … Read more

Covid outbreak in China: Guangzhou closes schools, new cases in Shanghai reach record

Covid outbreak in China: Guangzhou closes schools, new cases in Shanghai reach record

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE All 11 districts of Guangzhou city launched another round of mass testing at Covid late last week, while primary and secondary schools switched to online learning as of Monday. Costfoto | Publishing of the future Getty Images BEIJING – Another major Chinese city has tightened Covid’s … Read more

China is closing Shanghai in two phases to control Covid

China is closing Shanghai in two phases to control Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Healthcare workers wearing protective gear as a measure against Covid-19 coronavirus are walking down a street in Jing’an County, Shanghai on March 26, 2022. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING – China’s largest city, Shanghai, launched a two-stage jail on Monday as authorities try … Read more

Johnson & Johnson splits off its consumer division, which could pose risks

Johnson & Johnson splits off its consumer division, which could pose risks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Johnson & Johnson announced in November that it intends secede from its consumer business November 2023 into a new public company. Wall Street news came as no surprise. “The analyst community has been talking for years about the division of J&J,” said Jared Holz, health equity … Read more

A major Chinese city is being locked up to control the Covid outbreak

A major Chinese city is being locked up to control the Covid outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Students are waiting in line for a COVID-19 nucleic acid test at Xi’an Jiaotong University on December 17, 2021 in Xian, Shaanxi Province, China. Hua Shang Daily Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING – A major city in central China where Covid-19 cases erupted on … Read more

The emergency physician wants to use “circuit breakers” to slow the spread of Covid. Here’s how it would work

The emergency physician wants to use “circuit breakers” to slow the spread of Covid.  Here’s how it would work

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A doctor monitors a patient with Covid-19 in the Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit at a Community Hospital in Germany on April 28, 2021. RONNY HARTMANN AFP | Getty Images Local governments can now adopt a more targeted approach to restrictions to help slow the spread of … Read more

Dr. Eric Topol says the Covid rapid tests are “not perfect” – that’s how he recommends using them

Dr.  Eric Topol says the Covid rapid tests are “not perfect” – that’s how he recommends using them

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eric Topol told CNBC on Monday that rapid coronavirus tests have limitations that Americans must adhere to because the demand for rapid diagnostic results is growing during a wave of infections with the omicron version. “They’re not perfect,” Topol said in an interview with CNBC Jim … Read more

Cramer says the shares are “still heavily resold” even after the big Wall Street rise

Cramer says the shares are “still heavily resold” even after the big Wall Street rise

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CNBC Jim Cramer said on Thursday that the attempt to enter the stock market ‘s mindset is “difficult to grasp”, especially with The recent volatility of Wall Street about what’s happening with the new version of omicron Covid. “The feeling is a whimsical beast,” he added. … Read more

Why this “perfect storm” for inflation will push Americans back to work and cool speculative markets

Why this “perfect storm” for inflation will push Americans back to work and cool speculative markets

Investors are now experiencing a complete storm of inflation in the US Complete storms arise from seemingly small factors. Each in itself may not be particularly important, but the overall result is an event that significantly exceeds the sum of the parts. Inflation is always caused by too much money hunting for too few commodities. … Read more

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