Health Care Services

Deutsche Bank has changed the price target on the following companies: McKesson (NYSE: MCK) Buy, PT from $108 to $103 Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) Buy, PT from $50 to $51 Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) Buy, PT from $67 to $65 AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC) Hold, PT from $45.50 to $44 Medco...

Deutsche Bank has changed the price target on the following Healthcare companies: Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) Hold, PT from $63 to $62 LabCorp of America (NYSE: LH) Buy, PT From $102 to $107

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) has “done nothing recently but it's starting to more up." For Southern Company (NYSE: SO), he said, "I feel so good about that stock. That's the kind of stock you want to own as part of a...

Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "We continue to believe that athena is poised for sustained long term growth. In our view, the long term growth potential, future operating margin expansion...

According to J.P. Morgan, Clinical Laboratories (NYSE: LH) coverage is initiated with a Neutral rating. J.P. Morgan said that it is initiating coverage on the two large clinical laboratories, LabCorp (LH) and Quest Diagnostics (DGX). “We initiate coverage on Quest (DGX) with a Neutral rating and...

Morgan Stanley reiterated its Equal-weight rating on Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX). At the moment, DGX does not have a price target placed on the company's stock. On Tuesday, DGX lost 0.14% of its value to finish the day at $58.52.

JP Morgan has initiated coverage on LabCorp (NYSE: LH) with a Neutral rating and $105 PT and has also initiated covearge on Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) with a Neutral rating and $64 price target.

Here are today's Put/Call Ratio leaders… 1. Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) 2,541 puts, 21 call 2. KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) 10,901 puts, 90 calls 3. Warner Chilcott (NASDAQ: WCRX) 2,590 puts, 22 calls 4. Ralcorp Holdings (NYSE: RAH) 3,188 puts, 35 calls 5. China Unicom (NYSE: CHU) 2,551 puts, 55 calls

Shares of Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) are higher on the session by 0.67%, trading at $58.99. Overall put volume is now running at 5.72x the daily average, with 15% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 2,510 contracts have traded on the session so far. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated...

HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY) today announced that the shareholders approved the increase of its total authorized number of shares of common stock. Therefore, as previously announced, the Company will effect a three-for-one stock split of the Company's common shares in the form of a common...

Auriga is out with its report today on aurigahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), reiterating Hold. In a note to clients, Auriga writes, "We are reiterating our HOLD rating on athenahealth on the heels of last week's contract expansion with University Hospitals and in advance of earnings on July 21. While the...

The S&P 500 lost 9.4 points, or 0.7%, in Friday's trading session, as a weaker-than-expected jobs report put an end to the recent market rally. The SPX is now 26.78 points lower than its 52-week high of 1370.58, which was set on May 2nd. The Sector breakdown for Friday's session is as follows...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on Catalyst Health Solutions (NASDAQ: CHSI), maintaining Overweight. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, "This evening, OW-rated Catalyst Health Solutions provided its updated 2011 outlook following the closing of the Walgreens Health Initiatives...

Sky News remains the most-watched news channel each day by up-market Europeans, according to the results of the 2011 European Media and Marketing Survey (EMS).  This year Sky News has also achieved the highest weekly reach of all the news and business channels across the 23 international channels...

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