The Latest Breaking News from ABBV

AbbVie Inc (NYSE:ABBV) has ended a research partnership with Sweden's BioArctic, backing out further development of an experimental Parkinson's disease drug and other related medicines. A clinicaltrials.gov listing for ABBV-0805 says a Phase I study is "Withdrawn (Strategic considerations)." The partnership between AbbVie and BioArctic, which began in 2016, was focused on antibody drugs…

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 7.23% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 20.59%. Currently, AbbVie has a market capitalization of $286.37 billion.

Amid concerns over the Fed’s aggressive interest rate posture, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, which are exacerbating supply chain constraints, the stock market is expected to remain volatile in the coming months. Thus, well-established mega-cap companies are attracting investors’ attention, given their ability to…