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NEW YORK - Health care stocks rose in Wednesday morning trading, with insurers rising after UnitedHealth Group Inc. reduced its full-year profit and revenue forecasts as Wall Street expected.
| UNH | 22.09 |  -2.02 |
| CVH | 29.8 | -1.75 |
| MCK | 46.17 | -2.69 |
| THC | 4.5 | -0.51 |
| ABC | 34.86 | -2.14 |
| AET | 33.06 | -3.34 |
| CAH | 47.56 | -2.51 |
| CI | 30.83 | -2.57 |
| DGX | 47.7 | -2.5 |
| ESRX | 65.8 | -4.04 |
| HUM | 36.78 | -2.53 |
| LH | 63.01 | -3.32 |
| MHS | 42.51 | -2.49 |
| PDCO | 27.77 | -1.1 |
| WCG | 27.67 | -3.49 |
| WLP | 42.52 | -1.94 |
UnitedHealth said high Medicare-related costs, lower commercial business and price pressure will hurt its results, but analysts said the announcement was widely anticipated.
Here are early results for a few key stocks in the sector:
UnitedHealth Group rose 57 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $26.20.
Coventry Health Care Inc. rose $1.53, or 5.1 percent, to $31.83.
McKesson Corp. rose 74 cents to $55.59.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. rose 29 cents, or 5.1 percent, to $5.94.
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