Trump's 'sweep­ing ac­tion' to low­er drug prices mocked by an­a­lysts as re­lieved in­vestors trig­ger ral­ly in Big Phar­ma stocks

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump took to the bul­ly pul­pit to­day to steer a pack­age of pro­pos­als in­to ex­is­tence that he claimed is “the most sweep­ing ac­tion in his­to­ry to low­er the price of pre­scrip­tion drugs for the Amer­i­can peo­ple.”

But if that was his aim, his shot hit so far from the mark that it trig­gered a spike in Big Phar­ma stock prices as an­a­lysts dis­missed the ef­fort as a “non-event” cen­tered on some mar­gin­al pro­mo­tion­al is­sues that would be a “small price to pay” for avoid­ing tak­ing a hit on their con­trol of drug pric­ing.

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