Im sue herera. Cvs is a major player in the Nations Health care system and drug supply chain. Its also on the front lines of the epidemic. Tonight that company is taking steps to try and curb abuse of the drugs by limiting the duration and dose of some prescriptions. Cvs reach is wide. Through its caremark unit, the company manages medications for nearly 90 million people. Thats about 28 of the u. S. Population. Meg terrell has more now on cvs new rules for opioid painkillers. Reporter cvs health said today its taking new actions to try to curb misuse of prescription opioids. If we do limit exposure to these medications, well have fewer people who become addicted to them. And the fewer people who become addicted, theyll lead better lives. Well relieve human suffering and the number of deaths that occur. Reporter cvs says it will limit use of o to seven days. For chronic pain, cvs says it will put caps on the daily dose. They say its consistent with guidelines set last year by the cente
Year. Why it could get even worse and how you can profit. The action begins right now. Lets get right to it with the trump rally on pause and the dow stuck below 20 k, one hot sector showing signs of cooling off. Dan, looking at the industrials . Mel, it was one of the right out of the gate, right after the election, it was one of the sectors that took off. I want to look at the xli, the spider industrial etf. Whats interesting about the makeup of that etf, theres a lot of defense stocks, theres a lot of industrial stocks like equipment stocks, cater pill letter, and transport stocks. Transport stocks have been doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Unp up 30 on the year, fed ex up, u. P. S. Up. General electric, which is the largest weighted component in the xli at about 10 , is only up about 2 on the year. Its real mass of underportland. 55 of their sales come from overseas and i think thats obviously something that came postelection too. Then a couple other things that lead me to believe
Good morning, welcome to squawk alley. Kara is joining us from our Nations Capital more activity in trump tower. Marilyn houston is meeting with the president elect. We have been following this one. Phil is joining us tr chicago. Good morning, what this meeting is is the second one between the ceo of martin and donald trump in the last three weeks. Lets see if this one goes better. That was down and she walked in there. A short time later we saw the ceo of boeing walk in. He said im not happy about the cost of air force one. Or the f35, what is Lockheed Martin. They said were going to work the administration to bring down the cost. She walked out and didnt say a word. The trump tweets continued to blast locke Lockheed Martin. Theres been a couple tweets and hes talked about it at press conference this week. So they meet at noon. Lets see if the meeting goes better in terms of her making it clear to the Trump Administration that she understands their concerns, and will work with the adm
airports or other places that, of course, tourists might gather. u.s. military responding as well 30-to-the ramped up terror threat. military installations taking appropriate security cautions. one u.s. official saying, quote, this is a serious situation. i want to be clear about what we re talking about here. this is a travel alert. it s expected, now, this is just to mean for people to be vigilant, to keep a good eye out. what they re telling people to do since 9/11, you should always be vigilant and aware of your surroundings. this is not a travel warning. it is not telling people don t travel to europe, it s not telling americans who might be in europe to leave europe. this is just an alert telling people to be aware. it s expected to highlight the need for vigilance, as i m saying. atika, we are getting this alert here for american citizens, but what about the citizens of london, where you are? what kind of alert are they on? reporter: there s no alert so far here. the