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Text: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX) shares are trading lower by 3.42% to $263.88 during Monday's pre-market session after the company announced VX-880 Phase 1/2 has been placed on clinical hold by the FDA due to “a determination that there is insufficient information to.
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