Health Care Up as Traders Sidestep Rate Risk -- Health-Care Roundup

Shares of health-care companies rose slightly as traders rotated into sectors less sensitive to the vagaries of interest-rate changes. Johnson & Johnson plans to build the soon-to-be acquired Actelion business into a drug development and commercialization business dedicated to pulmonary arterial hypertension, The Wall Street Journal reported after an interview with J&J executive Jane Griffiths.

-Rob Curran, rob.curran@dowjones.com

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June 14, 2017 16:18 ET (20:18 GMT)