Home

Opening Glance: Health care equipment and supplies

By Associated Press
July 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

Recs

0

Health care equipment and supply stocks mostly rose early Thursday after the Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate fell flat in June, as economists had expected, abating some concern about the job market.

How shares of some major health care equipment and supply companies fared shortly after the opening bell:

Covidien Ltd. added 27 cents to $48.89.

Stryker Corp. up 10 cents to $62.66.

Baxter International Inc. gained 45 cents to $64.28.

Bucking the trend, Varian Medical Systems Inc. lost 34 cents to $50.43.

Comments from our Foolish Readers

Help us keep this a respectfully Foolish area! This is a place for our readers to discuss, debate, and learn more about the Foolish investing topic you read about above. Help us keep it clean and safe. If you believe a comment is abusive or otherwise violates our Fool's Rules, please report it via the Report this Comment icon found on every comment.

Be the first one to comment on this article.

Compare Brokers

DocumentId: 678352, ~/articles/articlehandler.aspx, 12/5/2008 12:50:29 AM,

Sign up for FREE Motley Fool site access to keep reading:

“Opening Glance: Health care equipment and supplies”

Signing up allows you to comment on articles and on the discussion boards.

It's completely FREE and will take only 10 seconds.

Privacy / Legal Information

We will use your email address only to keep you informed about updates to our web site and about other products and services that we think might interest you. The Motley Fool respects your privacy. Please read our Privacy Statement

Report This Comment

Use this area to report a comment that you believe is in violation of the community guidelines. Our team will review the entry and take any appropriate action.