Last Updated: March 17, 2026 at 6:27\u202fp.m. ET
First Published: March 17, 2026 at 2:28\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n
In a surprising move, Eli Lilly\u2019s stock has been downgraded by HSBC analysts who argue that the heavily hyped weight-loss-drug market is due for a correction \u2014 and that the middle-class Americans who pay out of pocket for these drugs could struggle to do so in the future.<\/p>\n
The drugmaker\u2019s stock LLY<\/a> fell 5.9% on Tuesday, making it the second-worst performer in the S&P 500 SPX<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Updated: March 17, 2026 at 6:27\u202fp.m. ETFirst Published: March 17, 2026 at 2:28\u202fp.m. ET In a surprising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49382,113584,113578,51394,58443,18645,5227,103,397,396,61,57305,60,77445,2720,1691,113585],"class_list":["post-353067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-consumer-affairs","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-equity-markets","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-industrial-news","tag-ireland","tag-lly","tag-manufacturing","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-recommendation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}