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Sector Update: Health Care

Sep 24, 2025 12:55 PM

03:39 PM EDT, 09/24/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were lower late Wednesday afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index shedding 0.4% and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) decreasing 0.5%.

The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was down 0.7%.

In corporate news, UniQure ( QURE ) shares surged 250% in recent Wednesday trading after the company said that its phase 1/2 study of Huntington's disease met its primary endpoint, with high-dose AMT-130 showing a statistically significant 75% slowing of disease at 36 months as measured by the composite Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale.

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