Health-care companies rose as traders rotated into the defensive sector ahead of election and Federal Reserve developments next week.
Shares of Reckitt Benckiser and Abbott Laboratories rallied after a U.S. court cleared the companies of liability in a case concerning their baby formulas. The lawsuit had alleged that Reckitt's Mead Johnson unit, along with Abbott, failed to warn that their specialized formulas for premature infants increased the risk of bowel disease.
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (Reckitt) is a United Kingdom-based global consumer goods company. The Company's operating segments comprise the Hygiene, Health, and Nutrition business. The Hygiene portfolio works to eliminate dirt, germs, pests, and odors with products such as Lysol, Finish, Air Wick, Harpic and Mortein. The Company’s Health portfolio offers various solutions that provide pain relief, protection, hygiene, and personal care to households across the world, through brands like Dettol, Durex, Gaviscon, Nurofen, Mucinex, Strepsils and Veet. The Nutrition business includes its infant and child nutrition, its adult nutrition and its range of vitamins, minerals, and supplements (VMS). Brands under Nutrition business include Enfa, Enfamil, Nutramigen, Airborne, Move Free and Neuriva. The Company’s brands also include Dettol, Lysol, Harpic, Finish, Durex, Mucinex, Enfamil and Move Free and more.
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