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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Wednesday, December 6th, and we're talking about three big news items in health care,

Aetna CBS, Tax Reform, and an Apple Heart Study.

I'm your guest host, Michael, Christine's sick today so I'm

filling in for her. Sorry everybody and I'm joined by Todd Campbell. Todd good to have you.

Michael, great to be here and great to be able to chat with you today.

For a second there, I thought maybe you lost your way

on the way to film the financial show.

Yes, as probably many listeners were sort of questioning that at the beginning to

they were like wait a minute I've heard this guy recently okay so let's start off

with the big news item that really for industry focus listeners isn't necessarily a huge big news item.

At N, and CVS are officially planning to merge.

We'll talk about it very quickly because you and Christina obviously covered this heavily

recently and Christine actually was on the market foolery show yesterday to talk about it.

So listeners if you're looking for more details check out those shows.

But it looks like things are officially planned at least at CVS is offering $145 in cash per share

plus 0.8 378 CVS shares that's roughly $2007 per share of Aetna.

Yeah, a tiny deal, right?

Yeah.

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