The S&P 500 rose Friday and posted a second straight week of gains, as a rise in health-care stocks offset a drop in energy shares in recent sessions. Though the S&P 500's health-care sector slipped Friday, it notched its biggest weekly rise since the presidential election. Shares of pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms jumped this past week following some encouraging data on drug development.
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