Elizabeth Warren’s Rise Is Battering Health-Care Stocks – The Wall Street Journal

ByKaren Langley Oct. 15, 2019 8:00 am ET
The 2020 election is still more than a year out, but one sector is already feeling the electoral heat: health-care stocks.
The group has been among the worst-performing sectors in the S&P 500 this year, rising just 3.9%, compared with an 18% gain for the index. Only the energy segment has fared worse, up less than 1% in 2019.
Although health-care stocks are often considered defensive investments that tend to hold up during economic turmoil, they can b