humana and aetna -- and not raising money in a debt sale. -- aetna raising money in a detail.euticals -- sales numbers a couple days ago. if you look at the year to date performance here, this etf is not much changed, up just fractionally. here are the best performers year-to-date. and bostone sciences scientific as well. there's been a lot of activity in pharmaceuticals and generally within health care. you've always got study approvals that help move the stocks as well. shery: let's get to "bloomberg may be king of the road right now when it comes to ride sharing. lyft is gaining, slashing fares in the process. ♪ shery: welcome back. this is "bloomberg markets." time for the bloomberg business flash. gannett is leaning towards dropping its bid to acquire tribune publishing. shareholders will support the current board of directors. the newspaper company is waiting to see how tribune shareholders vote in today's annual meeting for making a decision. has 150 million people using the service each day. the four-year-old messaging app more popular than twitter by daily active user

after newshour contacted aetna, lehman's insurer, the company reviewed his case. it told us lehman was not, in fact, responsible for the $2,200 balance bill he received. and that it will be reimbursing him for what he paid. but, lehman is still paying off that earlier $4,500 emergency room bill. >> it gets a little crazy. it gets to the point where you're reluctant to go see the doctor. >> thompson: read more stories about surprise medical bills online at pbs.org/newshour. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, sunday. >> thompson: in california, a wildfire raging since thursday has now consumed 200 homes, including that of an elderly couple who died. more than 1,700 firefighters, taking advantage of light winds today, established a perimeter around the 58-square mile blaze, which is only 10% contained. 2,500 homes are threatened by the fire, an hour east of bakersfield and two hours north of los angeles. president obama has declared a state of emergency in three west virginia counties overwhelmed by flooding, triggered by 10 inches of rain over two days last week. the

aetna is having to break up a lot of its entities to do a merger of them own. aetna could buy them in normal circumstances but they don't have the money. >> isn't ironic, david, we all want to start economy, here is american company trying to create wealth, trying to grow. they're not battling competitors but federal government. david: waste of money. >> as you said, we know we can't fight city hall. antitrust is the most non-objective and really arbitrary, most destructive type of regulation. it is after the fact regulation. this is really impacting u.s. economy. david: whenever you spend billions of dollars on lawyers, that is a waste of billions of dollars from corporate shareholder standpoint. guys, appreciate it. melissa? melissa: prime minister david cameron meeting with 27 countries in brussels at a working dinner. this will be the first meeting between cameron since the eu voted to leave the european union last week. adam shapiro is standing by in brussels with details what we can expect from the meeting and ashley webster is in london with the latest o

that is a $60 billion deal on the heels of the aetna-humana announcement. the doj has expressed concern that if these came to pass, four of the five biggest companies would turn into three. david: very interesting. mark crumpton has more from the newsroom. the investigation into the egypt flight is delayed by a damaged computer. officials say a team of experts has to clean out salt from more than 200 electronic circuits to determine which one is preventing attempts to read the memory unit. benjamin netanyahu and john kerry are scheduled to meet in rome on sunday. resuming peacess talks with the palestinians. those negotiations collapsed two years ago. 30 houston kratz, led by john lewis, staged a sit down protest today seeking a vote on gun control measures following the nightclub shooting. ryan keep thepaul to debate andsion vote on gun legislation. >> we are calling on the leadership to bring common sense and control legislation to the house floor. give us a vote! let us vote! we came here to work. mark: the house was not in session when the democrats hel

you think about aetna and humana. look at anthem. you see that tens of millions of dollars that these companies in the private sector are losing on the exchanges. so they have no choice but to try to merge and try to get costs under control because they're getting hammered on the exchanges created by the hca. david: erin, is the government going to kill this deal? >> so there are some theories they are initially putting out these concerns in for anthem and cigna to actually be forced into more of the exchanges because right now -- david: hold on, you're suggesting that the government is blackmailing these companies to get them into the exchanges by denying the deal? >> it is not blackmailing. as part of any negotiations you ask for con seconds. david: i guess blackmail is a matter of degree but sounds at least like a little arm-twisting going on there. melissa? melissa: apple pulling out of republican national convention. the tech giant which previously backed both parties at conventions will not provide funding or support this year,

united health, traveler, aetna, all of them, less than one quarter of 1%. >> yeah, it's pretty hard tohealth insurance to a country that has no health care. >> it's not called obama care. >> what about the sweets, jill? i don't think smucker -- >> nobody knows what a hershey kiss is. >> they don't want to know. >> but, yeah, there are other companies as well. ppl. that happens to own quite a lot of utility operations in the uk. there are blackrock, for example, invesco. quite a few are exposed. if you do get brexit, you're going to get them in the market. >> i was thinking as we continue to follow these results, these are going to be involved with the biggest uk exposure. it might tell us what it's priced at. >> look at the big energy. newmont mining, apache, transamerican. >> that's right. eric, thank you so much. >> thanks. cadablybury chocolate is on my mind. found out which stock could reach 30%. and the polling to come in in a couple of minutes. swreel the latest on how it's shaping up when we come back. >>> welcome back. netflix and dis234i, business partners as well as business

companies saying we are stronger together to battle the situation and and some looking to buy cigna and aetna they say we are stronger together but we are concerned about higher costs for consumers speaking about insurance. >> to your point in the wall street journal, they expect the department of justice to fight this and it is not clear if and them is willing to go through the legal hassle, $48 billion, if and some says that is too much hassle. a breakup fee but there are other examples. has been very heavy. connell: i am staying for the next hour. thank you so much for walking me through this. we will be back. a lot of people coming in. more "cavuto coast to coast" straightahead. i'm just a guy who wants to buy that truck. and i'm just a guy who wants to sell him that truck. so i used truecar. it told me what other people in the area paid for the truck i want. and because we're a truecar certified dealership, i already know the truck he wants. so we're on the same page before he even gets here. -it's fair. -and it's fast. look good? looks great. this is how car buying was always meant to b

and research has shown particularly at aetna where they launched that mindfulness program.ke a do list? >> yes. this is something people miss. consider this. research has shown the typical office worker spends 41% of their day working on non value add activities that are discretionary. so your choice. we do that because we don't have a priority list. sounds simple but start with a list of priorities every day to ask where am i starting? what value is this giving me? and is it worth doing? >> is it something to do the night before? >> i think when you get in in the morning. priorities are change and stuff will come at you but ju just tro to vet it. >> it is warm down here. are you guys hot? see they are half alegally sleep unfortunately. also as the 5:00 a.m. show. but the top of the office. you say set the temperature properly. >> when you look around you see sweaters on and fans going and jackets. cornell has found when you take the temperature from 68 up to 77 you actually get a 44% drop in error rates but a 150% boost in productivi productivity. warmer is better. optimal