Health-care companies fell as traders rotated back into higher risk sectors.

Shares of Bayer surged after the U.S. Solicitor General supported the German chemical and drug maker's push for the Supreme Court to take up its Roundup weedkiller case.

In the last decade, Bayer has paid out about $10 billion to plaintiffs who have claimed that Roundup's main ingredient, glyphosate, caused their cancer.


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