1258 ET - President Trump's executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs might make drugmakers' stocks more volatile in the near term, but probably won't damage their healthy long-term prospects, Gabelli Funds portfolio manager Jeff Jonas says in a note. He's skeptical that the order's mandates will ever happen, and thinks it would be hard to get Europe to raise their prices given their tight budget situations and defense spending needs, Jonas says. The order does put negative pressure on pharmacy benefits managers such as Cigna Group, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group, Jonas says. (dean.seal@wsj.com)
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