Health-care companies ticked up as investors bet the sector would fare well under the Democratic-controlled government.
The U.K.'s health regulator authorized the use of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, giving Britain a third vaccine in its battle against a highly contagious new variant of the virus.
President-elect Joe Biden will seek to release nearly all available coronavirus vaccine doses to accelerate distribution, his transition team said Friday, in a shift from the Trump administration's policy of holding back stock for second doses.
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