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[ad_1] As Wall Street on Tuesday attempted to hold onto recent gains, we received positive updates on two Club holdings that are seeing outsized moves to the upside: Danaher (DHR) and Constellation Brands (STZ). DHR 1Y mountain Danaher's 1 year stock performance Danaher is set to present at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday afternoon. However, ahead of the event, on Monday evening, the life sciences and medical diagnostics company released its slide deck. In addition to providing a high-level look at what the company will look like after the separation of its Environmental & Applied Solutions business, it included an upward revision to fourth-quarter guidance. Shares jumped 4% on the positive revision. Some investors were concerned that management would preannounce weak earnings. Now, management sees core sales growth up in the high single-digit range. The increase can be largely attributed to better-than-expected performance in Cepheid's molecular diagnost...

[ad_1] A worker cleans the exterior of a First Republic bank on April 26, 2023 in San Francisco, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Regulators took possession of First Republic on Monday, resulting in the third failure of an American bank since March, after a last-ditch effort to persuade rival lenders to keep the ailing bank afloat failed. JPMorgan Chase , already the largest U.S. bank by several measures, emerged as winner of the weekend auction for First Republic. It will get all of the ailing bank's deposits and a "substantial majority of assets," the New York-based bank said . JPMorgan is getting about $92 billion in deposits in the deal, which includes the $30 billion that it and other large banks put into First Republic last month. The bank is taking on $173 billion in loans and $30 billion in securities as well. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation agreed to share losses on mortgages and commercial loans that JPMorgan assumed in the transaction...

[ad_1] Thibaut Mongon, CEO and Paul Ruh CFO of Kenvue Inc. a Johnson & Johnson's consumer-health business, pose together during the company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 4, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Johnson & Johnson on Thursday said its shareholders will soon be able to swap their shares for stock of Kenvue , which spun out as an independent consumer health company just two months ago. J&J owns nearly 90% of Kenvue shares and plans to reduce its stake through an exchange offer that could launch "as early as the coming days," depending on market conditions, J&J CFO Joseph Wolk said during the company's second-quarter earnings call.  That process, also known as a split-off, will allow J&J shareholders to exchange all or a portion of their shares for Kenvue's common stock. J&J did not provide further details on the planned offer. But Wolk said a split-off is the "most advanta...

[ad_1] Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Oct. 21, 2022. Source: NYSE Stocks rose Friday as strong earnings results from some of the biggest banks and companies kicked off earnings season. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 121 points, or 0.3%. The S&P 500 ticked up about 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.2%. Wall Street is coming off its fourth consecutive day of gains, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 reaching their highest levels since April 2022. JPMorgan Chase rose 0.3% after its second-quarter earnings topped expectations. The bank was boosted by higher interest rates and rising interest income. Wells Fargo also gained 0.5% on the back of better-than-expected results. UnitedHealth shares jumped 8% after the insurance giant reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue. The company also raised the lower end of its full-year earnings guidance. "What we've seen simple out of out of big bank earnings, especially JPMorgan, is pretty resilient,...