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Opening Glance: health care equipment and supply stocks

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May 6, 2008

NEW YORK—Health care equipment and supply stocks mostly fell in morning trading Tuesday after a number of disappointing quarterly reports from companies in the financial and homebuilding industries.

How shares of some major health care equipment and supply companies fared shortly after the opening bell:

Varian Medical Systems Inc. lost 42 cents to $46.38.

Stryker Corp. fell 44 cents to $61.69.

Baxter International Inc. fell 68 cents to $62.43.

Bucking the trend, Boston Scientific Inc. added 18 cents to $13.47.

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