Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.92% to 35,352.17 while the NASDAQ rose 1.61% to 14,570.49. The S&P also rose, gaining, 1.06% to 4,581.00.
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Baudax Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: BXRX) shares rose 36.2% to $0.2675 in pre-market trading. Baudax Bio, last month, announced a $4.2 million registered direct offering.
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Zogenix, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZGNX) shares surged 65.7% to close at $25.92 on Wednesday after the company announced it will be acquired by UCB for approximately $1.9 billion.
Valneva SE (NASDAQ:VALN, PARIS:VLA), a specialty vaccine company, today confirms the previously communicated timelines of its clinical trials and regulatory submissions for its inactivated, adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001.