Health care companies weigh on US stocks; key indexes mixed
Stocks are mixed Wednesday afternoon on Wall Street, erasing some of the market’s modest gains from a day earlier.A sharp sell-off in health care companies far outweighed gains in technology and other sectors. Smaller company stocks fell more than the rest of the market.Insurers helped drive the health care sector slide for the second straight day. Investors fear the potential impact on profits from health reform ideas being discussed in Washington and on the presidential […]
