Economics

Pharma Stocks Struck as Drug Pricing Story Takes Its Toll

  • A new price war set off by payers hurts S&P health-care index
  • ‘We may be seeing the end of days,’ Baird analysts say
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

It’s been a brutal October for health-care investors. The worst may be yet to come.

A year after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton first tweeted about outrageous price gouging, the reality of pricing pressure in the U.S. hit Wall Street in the most concrete way: earnings.