Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2017
CVS Health is in talks to buy Aetna
26 October 2017 - Sources say CVS Health has proposed to buy Aetna for more than $200 a share, or $66 billion.
CVS Health Corp. is in talks to buy Aetna Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could value the health insurer at upward of $66 billion.
CVS Health has made a proposal to buy Aetna for more than $200 per share, one of the people said. On Thursday afternoon, before The Wall Street Journal reported news of the talks, shares of Aetna were trading at $160.62 each.
