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US measles cases have reached a 33-year high. A little more than halfway into 2025, the US has reported 1,288 measles cases, marking the highest yearly total since 1992, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Stocks up

• Cereal legend WK Kellogg popped 30.57% after chocolate giant Ferrero agreed to acquire it for north of $3 billion.
• Tesla (+4.73%) continued to rebound from its plunge on Monday. Elon Musk said that Tesla’s robotaxi service would expand into the Bay Area “probably in a month or two” and that his AI chatbot Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles by next week.
• Estée Lauder gained 6.32% after Bank of America slapped a buy rating on the stock, implying a 27% upside from Wednesday’s closing price. 
• ProKidney continued its remarkable rally, rising another 19.35%, after the biotech announced positive trial results for its diabetes treatment. It’s gone from a penny stock to a $1.55 billion market cap in the past four days.
• Copper companies Freeport-McMoRan (+3.51%) and Southern Copper (+2.34%) gained thanks to Trump’s announcement that copper tariffs would begin on August 1.

Stocks down

• Biotech partners Ultragenyx (-25.11%) and Mereo BioPharma Group (-42.52%) plunged after issuing a disappointing update on their trial of a treatment for a rare genetic bone condition.
• Vertiv, the maker of liquid cooling equipment, declined 5.96% when Amazon said it was rolling out a new liquid cooling system for its AI servers.
• Hydro Flask owner Helen of Troy tumbled 22.71% after reporting a $450 million loss in its fiscal first quarter. CEO Brian Grass said “tariff-related impacts” were its Achilles heel.
• Autodesk fell 6.89% after Bloomberg reported on Wednesday it was weighing a takeover of rival engineering software company PTC.

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