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With an effective cure for hepatitis C now in place after decades of research, we asked three of our top healthcare analysts which disease they believed researchers may cross off the list next. Here’s what they had to say.

The average dividend mutual fund has outperformed the S&P 500 in the past 15 years. Their holdings pay out significant portions of earnings, which can help limit their stocks’ decline during bear markets. Thus the average dividend mutual fund would have turned an investment of $10,000 on March 31, 2000, into $25,515 by May 19 this year, according to Morningstar Inc. data. The S&P 500 would have turned the same investment into $18,989.

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Facebook CFO Dave Wehner thinks WhatsApp could be useful to businesses.

Names on the move ahead of the open.

Manufacturing in China shrank for the third straight month in May as demand remained soft, raising the chances of more stimulus to prop up growth in the world’s No. 2 economy.

As private market valuations in tech go through the stratosphere, merger and acquisition volume is down, PricewaterhouseCoopers reports.

Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) will consider any partner that can improve profitability at its U.S. operations, its chief executive told the company’s annual shareholders meeting. Chief Executive Tim Hoettges said on Thursday T-Mobile US (TMUS.N), of which Deutsche Telekom owns 66 percent, was in much better shape than two years ago. “But it is our duty to go on improving the return on T-Mobile US,” he added.