08:57 AM EST, 01/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were flat to higher premarket Thursday, with the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) unchanged and The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) up 0.4%.
Exicure ( XCUR ) shares were up over 39% after the company said it agreed to acquire all the shares of GPCR Therapeutics USA, a subsidiary of South Korea's GPCR Therapeutics.