Health-care companies rose amid strong earnings and defensive bias.

Shares of medical-device maker Medtronic advanced after it raised its fiscal-year outlook after logging higher profit and sales in its latest quarter, boosted by robust demand across end markets and healthy procedure volumes.

Roche Holding shares rallied after the Swiss drug maker said its breast-cancer drug showed promise in clinical trials


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