All_About_Najmi/iStock via Getty Images As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that the average Medicare Advantage payments will be boosted by 2.48% in 2027 , major healthcare insurers sharply moved higher in after-hours trading on Monday. The CMS payment rate is closely watched by the market and dictates how much insurers can charge for monthly premiums and benefits, directly i...
All_About_Najmi/iStock via Getty Images As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that the average Medicare Advantage payments will be boosted by 2.48% in 2027 , major healthcare insurers sharply moved higher in after-hours trading on Monday. The CMS payment rate is closely watched by the market and dictates how much insurers can charge for monthly premiums and benefits, directly influencing their profitability. Previously in January, the administration had proposed a much smaller 0.09% hike, which had pressured insurers’ stocks. With a shift in sentiment translating to stock levels, Quant ratings provide a snapshot of which insurance provider names are screening strongest. Here is the list: HealthEquity ( HQY ), Quant Rating: 3.57 Centene Corporation ( CNC ), Quant Rating: 3.38 (up 4.3% after-hours on Monday) Alignment Healthcare ( ALHC ), Quant Rating: 3.30 (up 12.5% after-hours on Monday) UnitedHealth Group ( UNH ) , Quant Rating: 3.32 (up 7.8% after-hours on Monday) Progyny ( PGNY ), Quant Rating: 3.08 (up 1.1% after-hours on Monday) Elevance Health ( ELV ), Quant Rating: 2.97 (up 6.7% after-hours on Monday) Humana ( HUM ), Quant Rating: 2.78 (up 11% after-hours on Monday) Molina Healthcare ( MOH ), Quant Rating: 2.61 (up 3.8% after-hours on Monday) ETFs to track: ( IXJ ), ( VHT ), ( XBI ), ( XLV ), ( RSPH ) ( KIE ), ( IAK ). More on insurers UnitedHealth: Why It's Still Not Too Late To Buy The Turnaround The Quiet Turnaround In UnitedHealth AGI Bust, AI Boom: Why AI's Winners And Losers Aren't Who You Think Insurance stocks jump on Medicare Advantage rate boost: Humana, UnitedHealth, lead gains Insurers to receive extra $18B as Medicare overhauls Star Ratings system
Vietnam’s Communist Party boss To Lam was elected president by the National Assembly on Tuesday, capping his bid to centralise authority in a nation where senior cadres have traditionally governed collectively. In less than two years as party chief, the 68-year-old has swept aside rivals and transformed the country through an aggressive reform drive – literally redrawing the map as he combined pro...
Vietnam’s Communist Party boss To Lam was elected president by the National Assembly on Tuesday, capping his bid to centralise authority in a nation where senior cadres have traditionally governed collectively. In less than two years as party chief, the 68-year-old has swept aside rivals and transformed the country through an aggressive reform drive – literally redrawing the map as he combined provinces and slashed bureaucracy. Lam has set an ambitious target of 10 per cent annual growth for the...
IMF head warns Middle East war will lead to higher inflation and slower global growth Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday above $110 a barrel amid a deadline imposed by Donald Trump for Iran to open the strait of Hormuz or be “taken out,” with the US president threatening to order attac...
IMF head warns Middle East war will lead to higher inflation and slower global growth Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday above $110 a barrel amid a deadline imposed by Donald Trump for Iran to open the strait of Hormuz or be “taken out,” with the US president threatening to order attacks on Iranian power plants and bridges. The markets are back on a Trump-imposed countdown clock. To use a sporting analogy, it’s red time, and the result could go either way. Like a fortnight ago when the first threats from the Trump administration to attack Iranian power plants and other infrastructure were made, the markets are plonked at a crossroad, facing a binary outcome, at least in the short term. Either the attacks happen, marking a possibly catastrophic escalation where regional energy assets and civilian infrastructure across the Gulf is considered fair game. In such an instance, the energy complex jumps, pushing the US Dollar and global yields higher, and equities and non-yielders like gold lower. Or there’s a backdown, even better, a ceasefire, and the markets stage an epic relief rally, where a plunge in oil takes yields and the US Dollar with it, and equities and gold rip. 8.45am-9am BST: Italy, France, Germany, eurozone S&P Global PMIs (final) for March 9am BST: UK new car sales for March 9.30am BST: UK S&P Global PMI for March 1.30pm BST: US durable goods for February Continue reading...
The growing stress in the oil market triggered by the Middle East war is showing up in huge premiums for prompt real-world barrels, with the wider Brent complex working as it should, according to Morgan Stanley. Buyers are “paying an exceptional premium for secure, refinery-usable Atlantic Basin barrels available now,” analysts including Martijn Rats said in a note dated April 7. “That does not me...
The growing stress in the oil market triggered by the Middle East war is showing up in huge premiums for prompt real-world barrels, with the wider Brent complex working as it should, according to Morgan Stanley. Buyers are “paying an exceptional premium for secure, refinery-usable Atlantic Basin barrels available now,” analysts including Martijn Rats said in a note dated April 7. “That does not mean the futures market is broken. It just means that different parts of the complex are pricing different combinations of immediacy, tightness and expected persistence,” they added. The global crude market has been upended by the war between the US, Israel and Iran, which triggered the near-complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz , a vital corridor for energy flows. The extended disruption has set off a scramble — especially from Asian buyers — for alternatives, spurring interest in cargoes from Europe and the US. Reflecting that struggle, measures of physical demand have outpaced gains in futures by a wide margin. Ahead of the Easter weekend, Dated Brent — the world’s most important price for real-world barrels, which tracks North Sea shipments — surged above $140 to the highest since 2008. At the same time, futures have risen, but not to the same extent. June contracts were last near $108 a barrel. Read More: Key Real-World Oil Price Soars to Highest Level Since 2008 Dated Brent acts as the physical anchor of the wider complex, while futures are the “liquid financial layer” that’s the most visible, the analysts said. “The two prices are related, but they are not the same thing.” They added: “Stress is appearing first in the part of the benchmark that is closest to the immediate physical problem.” Brent futures fluctuated on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump escalated threats to obliterate key Iranian infrastructure if his terms weren’t met before a deadline. He listed reopening Hormuz as a priority.
Petr Vlachovsky’s non-contact sexual abuse has had long-term effects and could finally be the catalyst for safeguarding policy change for women and girls in the sport Kristyna Janku answered the phone to a police officer, not sure what she was going to hear. She had heard the rumours, the gossip, and was not sure what was true and what was not. The defender’s former coach Petr Vlachovsky, who coac...
Petr Vlachovsky’s non-contact sexual abuse has had long-term effects and could finally be the catalyst for safeguarding policy change for women and girls in the sport Kristyna Janku answered the phone to a police officer, not sure what she was going to hear. She had heard the rumours, the gossip, and was not sure what was true and what was not. The defender’s former coach Petr Vlachovsky, who coached women and girls at FC Slovacko for almost 15 years and was once voted the best women’s football coach in the Czech Republic, had been arrested and she was about to find out why. Continue reading...