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How major US stock indexes fared Friday 5/5/2023

Apple was at the head of a widespread rally on Wall Street after the stock market’s most influential company reported a better profit than expected. Stocks of beaten-down banks also leapt Friday to recover a smidgen of their sharp losses…

Apple, Expedia rise; Lyft, Bio-Rad Laboratories fall

NEW YORK — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Apple Inc., up $7.78 to $173.57. The iPhone maker beat Wall Street's fiscal second-quarter financial forecasts. Expedia Group, up $4.37 to $93.54. The online travel company reported…

FDA weighing 1st over-the-counter birth control pill

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet next week to review drugmaker Perrigo's application to sell a decades-old pill…