SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (NYSEARCA:XPH) exists to solve a specific problem: how do you gain broad exposure to pharmaceutical companies without the concentration risk of the largest healthcare names dominating your returns? XPH holds 57 positions with relatively even weighting-no single stock exceeds 2.12% of the portfolio. That structure delivers pure-play pharma exposure spanning large-cap stalwarts like Eli Lilly and Company () and Merck & Co. (), mid-cap specialty pharmaceutical companies, and smaller biotech names focused on niche therapeutics.
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed for seven weeks by the federal government shutdown. The increase in payrolls was more than double the 50,000 economists had forecast. Yet there were some troubling details in the delayed report. Labor Department revisions showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August instead of gaining 22,000 as originally reported.
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