DAILY UPDATE: Larry Ellison, Estate Planning, Female VCs, Health Costs as Markets Finish Flat

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Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison became the world’s second-richest person yesterday, pulling past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the software company’s stock surged. Elon Musk still sits at No. 1, per Forbes.

Read: Estate planning lawyers are sleeping easy. Read about how rich Americans are prepping for potential estate tax changes ahead of the election. (the Wall Street Journal)

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What’s up

  • Intel can’t stop, won’t stop: It rose 2.68% after announcing it will break its foundry business into a separate entity, which should go a long way to helping out the struggling chip maker.
  • Microsoft rose a tepid 0.88%, in spite of positive news: The company is raising its dividend and kicking off a new share repurchasing program.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise rounded out the old-school tech giants breaking to the upside, rising 5.69% after Bank of America analysts upgraded the stock from “Neutral” to “Buy.”
  • Flutter Entertainment, parent company of sports bettor FanDuel, popped 3.32% on the news that it’s buying Italian gambling company Snaitech S.A.
  • Gannett Co. soared 18.74% thanks to an upgrade of the newspaper company from “Sell” to “Neutral” by Citi analysts.

What’s down

  • Philip Morris International tumbled 2.14% after the tobacco titan sold its asthma inhaler maker Vectura Group for $198 million.
  • Accenture sank 4.85% on the news that it will push promotions back from June all the way to December, implying cash flow problems for the consulting giant.
  • Cigna fell 2.86% after Express Scripts, the healthcare giant’s pharmacy-benefits unit, sued the FTC over a recent drug pricing report.
  • Trump Media & Technology Group dropped 6.60% after a judge ruled that the company must award one of its investors a large chunk of the stock in exchange for helping it go public.

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Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The SPX added 1.49 points (0.03%) to 5,634.58; the Dow Jones Industrial Average® ($DJI) fell 15.90 points (–0.04%) to 41,606.18; the NASDAQ Composite® ($COMP) rose 35.93 points (0.20%) to 17,628.06.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) rose two basis points to 3.64%, near the lower end of its recent range.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) climbed to 17.74, its highest in nearly a week.

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Health benefit costs are soaring for employers, with over half of respondents saying they will need to make cost-cutting changes for next year: what employers are expecting.


Rethink Impact, a venture capital firm investing in female-led tech companies, has raised $250 million.


Employer Direct Healthcare is rebranding as Lantern and making a play in the infusion care space. The company also bolstered its clinical team, nabbing former execs at Teladoc and Hinge Health.

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ORACLE Buys CERNER Electronic Medical Records

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According to reporter Neal Freyman, Tech giant Oracle said it’s paying $28.3 billion to buy electronic medical records company Cerner, because anything that makes paperwork less excruciating seems like a savvy business play.

Oracle is known for being aggressive with acquisitions (it even rallied a group to try and buy TikTok last year), but Cerner is Oracle’s biggest purchase in its history. The deal is further evidence that health care is “on par with banking in terms of the importance to our future,” as cofounder Larry Ellison told analysts earlier this month.

  • In Cerner, Oracle will get the Klay Thompson of the electronic medical records market—a very influential player, but in second place behind Epic, which owns a 31% market share.

Bottom line: Big tech companies see a golden opportunity in bringing the health care industry to the cloud, given its size (health care spending accounts for almost 20% of US GDP), and its old-school record-keeping process. A Mayo Clinic study cited by Oracle showed that doctors and nurses spend an average of 1–2 hours on desk work for every hour they take to see patients.

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