Feeling Bern'd: Tweets from Sanders' account send Eli Lilly shares tumbling

A series of social media posts from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday sent shares of Eli Lilly and Co. briefly tumbling to a seven-month low.

Sanders' Twitter account posted a link to a Washington Post article detailing the decades-long price increase of a Lilly insulin called Humalog. The price of Humalog has risen from $21 a vial to more than $250 during the last 20 years, according to the Post.

The tweets went out to Sanders' 2.7 million Twitter followers. They were not signed by Sanders, indicating they were written by members of his staff. After sharing the Post's article, Sanders' account posted several more messages that were sharply critical of the Indianapolis drugmaker....
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