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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Drugmakers — Pharmaceutical stocks bounced back from earlier losses after an executive order aimed at bringing down drug prices was deemed not as bad as feared for the industry. Merck jumped 5.9%, while Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb each added more than 3%. Eli Lilly all rose…