Many North Carolina companies saw their stock prices rise Wednesday due to the election victory of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Here are two charts showing how stock prices of North Carolina companies in the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries and companies in the infrastructure industry trended on Wednesday.
By market-close, infrastructure companies grew significantly. Nucor Inc. saw the highest growth, peaking at $58.53. That’s an increase of 13.94 percent.
TheStreet.com went as far as to call one company’s growth “insanity,” in refernce to Caterpillar Inc., which has a location in Winston-Salem.
In pharmaceuticals, Cempra Inc. saw the largest growth of 20.34 percent to $7.10.
Early Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal reported that health care and drug company price would soar due to President-elect Trump’s opposition to Obamacare.

