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What You Need To Know About 2 New S&P 500 Members

Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and United Continental (UAL) are being added to the S&P 500. They’re replacing two buyouts: Pall (PLL) is being acquired by Danaher (DHR), and Hospira (HSP) is being bought by Pfizer (PFE). Here’s what you need to know about the two new additions: Activision Blizzard earns a 95 IBD Composite Rating. Earlier this month, the video game publisher reported better-than-expected second-quarter sales and earnings, which shot up

Internet Of Things Opens Your Car, Home To Hackers

It’s not just your car that’s hackable. Everything from home power to hospital drug pumps can crash on the Internet of risky things connecting up across the developed world. The Food and Drug Administration warned recently that hackers could access Hospira’s (HSP) Symbiq Infusion System remotely through a hospital’s network. “This could allow an unauthorized user to control the device and change the dosage the pump delivers, which could lead to

U.S. Drugmakers Facing First Wave Of Biosimilars

When the FDA last month approved the first biosimilar drug, the U.S. took its first step into a lucrative but potentially disruptive field of medicine. Pfizer (PFE), which is moving big into biosimilars with its $17 billion acquisition of Hospira (HSP), has estimated that global biosimilar sales could hit $17 billion to $20 billion a year by 2020. That’s vs. just $1 billion now, with those sales mainly in the European Union. With the