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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans and selected Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department. “Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country,” Trump said in a statement. “He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.”

Investors are "spooked" by plan to name a vaccine-sceptic as US health secretary, analysts say.

There is nothing suspicious about the shift in Democratic fortunes. But partisans from across the spectrum are questioning the results, for different reasons.

Employers added 12,000 jobs in October, much lower than the 223,000 created in September, figures show.

A guide to how the two presidential candidates might affect the financial issues that matter most to voters in 2024.

Taking stock of year three of the bull market shows that the rally is spreading out beyond the Magnificent Seven — and even beyond tech. Since the market's recent lows, three other non-tech sectors have taken up the mantle.

Older Americans are spending more years with chronic ailments, which often come with higher medical bills, experts said.

Healthcare and its big web of inefficiencies is thought to be a key arena for AI disruption. But investors might have to be very, very patient.

Federal regulators spent billions of dollars to avoid a spike in costs for older Americans that could have been politically damaging to the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.

International health experts have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently.

The prime minister has said the public will have to make "trade-offs" if the country is to improve.

At the Future Proof festival in California, top investment advisers debated the size of a looming Fed rate cut and how investors should position their portfolios for lower rates.

Kamala Harris is changing her policies to better align with what voters want. Maybe that's a good thing.

She started a nonprofit in New York City in 1971 by asking stores if they would offer reduced prices for people 65 and over. Thousands of retailers said yes.

The data comes as investors watch for signs of how quickly the Federal Reserve could bring down interest rates.