01:12 PM EDT, 03/11/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks declined Wednesday afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index down 0.6% and the State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) easing 0.2%.

The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) decreased 0.7%.

In corporate news, Stryker (SYK) is facing a global outage across its systems, and staff and contractors have said an Iran-linked hacking group's logo has appeared on login pages, The Wall Street Journal reported. Stryker shares were down more than 3%.