Sector Update: Health Care

Health care stocks closed higher this afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index rising 1.3% while the SPDR Health Care Select Sector ETF XLV was up 1.7%. The Nasdaq Biotechnology index was climbing 2.8%. In company news, ImmunoGen IIMGN gained 4.4% after saying more than 70% of patients in a study of mirvetuximab soravtansine monotherapy in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.