Health Care Down on Rotation to Utilities -- Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies ticked down as a rotation to other defensive sectors offset deal activity. Investment firm CD&R and drug wholesaler McKesson agreed to buy Option Care Health, a provider of infusions to patients at home, for about $5.8 billion including debt. Defensive-minded investors rotated back into the utility sector due to a nuclear deal. Becton Dickinson, a maker of medical technology and hospital supplies, struck a deal with the Trump administration to invest $19 billion in the U.S. in exchange for relief from future tariffs. The U.S. has warned Moscow that its failure to disclose details about the death of a lab worker from a plague research center in Siberia runs counter to its international health obligations, U.S. officials said. Write to Rob Curran at rob.curran@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires October 06, 2026 17:44 ET (21:44 GMT) Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The statements in this document shall not be considered as an objective or independent explanation of the matters. Please note that this document (a) has not been prepared in accordance with legal requirements designed to promote the independence of investment research, and (b)