+++ News: Heated mood around US health insurers +++

The shares of well-known insurance companies such as $UNH (+1.64%) but also those of competitors $ELV (-0.76%)
$HUM (-2.08%) and $CI (+0.21%) have fallen surprisingly this week. Although the losses are limited, the reasons for this are more than just shocking.

As I reported earlier, the CEO of United Healthcare's insurance division was the victim of a targeted assassination. While the police are now investigating at full speed, the perpetrator is currently the target of downright hero worship on social media. The assassin is repeatedly equated with characters from pop culture such as Batman, Robin Hood or John Wick.

Insults against the victim and his family are also liked and shared thousands of times. It is not just the viciousness of the comments that is frightening - but the fact that, as is so often the case in such instances, the platforms simply let them stand.

Insurers' shares are currently falling because there are fears that there could be further murders of insurance employees. The management of the major insurance companies is alarmed and has hastily removed photos and other personal data of their "C-level executives" from their websites.

Commentary and classification: After the failed assassination attempt on Trump, I'm hardly surprised at the kind of people we're dealing with here. The same people who talk about democracy and human rights in every other sentence are the same people who are now calling for the assassination of their ideological opponents once again. Even a good ESG score doesn't help United Health against so much hatred.

From a purely shareholder perspective, this charged sentiment towards the banking and insurance sector is $JPM (+1.21%) is of course a systemic risk when investing. However, these are not necessarily particularly controversial sectors. Retailers $WMT (-2.1%) pharmaceuticals $PFE (+1.49%)
$CVS (+0.57%) consumer goods manufacturers $KVUE (-0.53%)
$BATS (-0.24%) defense companies $LMT (+0.94%) etc. could soon find themselves in the crosshairs.

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$UNH (+1.64%) - United Health

After the numbers were very solid and the other health insurers/sector didn't really react strongly.

Which other health insurers could also react strongly after the numbers and surprise positively?

Which one is your favorite and why ?

$CVS (+0.57%) - CVS Health

$HUM (+5.48%) - Humana

$ELV (-0.76%) - Elevance Health

$HCA (+1.43%) - HCA Healthcare

$CI (+0.21%) - Cigna

$CNC (-0.82%) - Centene

Or do you have other favorites or companies from the sector on your watchlist?

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As of today, among others, Analog Devices ($ADI (+2.04%)), Anthem ($ANTM (-0.76%)), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. ($AJG (+0.82%)), Bank of America ($BAC (+1.1%)), Baxter International ($BAX (+1.47%)), BROWN-FORMAN B ($BF.B (-0.78%)), Dominion Energy ($D (-0.04%)), Imperial Oil ($IMO (-1.74%)), Linde plc ($LIN), Nasdaq ($NDAQ (-0.09%)), National Grid ($NG. (+0.44%)), PepsiCo ($PEP (+0.05%)), Suncor Energy ($SU (-1.17%)), Ingersoll Rand ($IR (+1.49%)) and Waste Management ($WM (-0.32%)) traded ex-dividend.

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Today, among others, Dollar General ($DG (+1.64%)), DocuSign, Inc. ($DOCU (-0.55%)), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ($CM (+0.32%)) , Marvell Technology Group ($MVL) and Toronto-Dominion Bank ($TD (+0.26%)) presented their figures.

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Microsoft ($MSFT (-1.05%)) - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is divesting half of his Microsoft shares, worth $285 million. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, Nadella is selling his shares for diversification and personal financial planning reasons. However, it is believed that he needs the money primarily for tax payments that may soon be due on long-term capital gains. For the same reason, Tesla ($TSLA (-4.58%)) chief Elon Musk sold share packages worth billions.

Square ($SQ (+1.31%)) - The payment service Square is changing its name to Block. The background to this is that Square now wants to focus more on the area of cryptocurrencies, the abbreviation "Block" stands for blockchain. The name change is to be implemented as early as December 10.

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EU countries have agreed on new transparency rules for remittances using bitcoin ($BTC (-0.14%)) and co. On Wednesday, the EU issued a press release saying that all transfers with cryptocurrencies should be traceable in the future. This would mean that anonymous cryptowallets would no longer be allowed. Crypto service providers would thus be obliged to make the information about the recipient and sender of the transfer transparent. The background of the EU lies in the fight against criminal transactions with cryptocurrencies.

Swiss Post NFTs - On Nov. 25, 2021, Swiss Post launched 175,000 NFT stamps for 8.90 Swiss francs each. The NFT stamps were well received, selling out after only four hours. The stamps are available in 13 different designs. The novel stamp can also be used to frank a letter through a QR code on the physical stamp. However, it is mainly used as a collector's item.

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As of today, Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc. ($AFT), Argan Inc. ($1AW (-0.74%)), Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. ($AIF), Colgate-Palmolive Company ($CPA (-1.99%)), Eagle Bancorp Inc. ($2ZI (-0.39%)), LTC Properties Inc. ($LTP (+0.27%)), Mexico Fund Inc. ($MXF) and SLR Senior Investment Corp. ($SUNS) traded ex-dividend.

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Today, IBM Corp. ($IBM (-0.87%)), Kühne & Nagel International AG ($KNIA (+0.44%)), Tesla ($TL0 (-4.58%)), Villeroy & Boch AG ($VIB3 (-0.49%)), Anthem Inc. ($A58 (-0.76%)), Biogen Inc. ($IDP (-1.48%)), PPG Industries Inc. ($PPQ (-0.82%)), Lam Research Corp. ($LAR), Northern Trust Corp. ($NT4 (+0.52%)) and Globe Life Inc. ($GL (+2.94%)) presented their figures.

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Hahn Airport - After the Chinese HNA Group, which owns 82.5% of the airport, filed for insolvency earlier this year, the airport is now insolvent as well. At the time, the airport counted 4 million passengers annually, but after Ryanair diverted more and more flights to other airports, there were only 1.5 million passengers in 2019. After the HNA bankruptcy, however, the airport management was sure that this would not change anything in the operation.

Netflix ($NFC (+0.09%)) - Quarterly numbers beat expectations:

User growth: 4.4 million instead of the expected 3.84

Earnings per share: $3.19 instead of $2.56

Revenue: $7.46 billion as expected

The reason for this strong growth was, among others, the successful series "Money Heist", "Sex Education" and "Squid Game". The latter was even streamed by 142 million users within 4 weeks of its release, making it the most successful Netflix production to date.

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ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF - The first day of trading makes history as the new ETF pulled in nearly $1 billion in trading volume, making it the most successful ETF launch on the New York Stock Exchange.

At the same time, the bitcoin price ($64,608.00) rose to nearly its all-time high ($64,805.00), the BTC/EUR ($BTC-EUR (-0.14%)) trading pair even managed to surpass the all-time high ($55,148.61)!