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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Lauren Almeida and Julia Kollewe

Pharmaceutical stocks slide as Trump vows to cut US prescription drug prices ‘by 30-80%’

off white tablets spill out of a small white plastic bottle onto a table of dollar bills
Trump did not specify whether his executive order to cut drug prices would apply to Medicare, Medicaid or other government health programmes. Photograph: Tom Grundy/Alamy

Donald Trump has promised to use his executive powers to cut the price of prescription drugs in the US in an attempt to bring them more in line with other countries, triggering a sharp fall in drugmakers’ share prices.

The US president has said he will sign an order on Monday that will reduce prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices “almost immediately” by “30% to 80%”.

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