one example is altria, based in the philip morris. altria gave -- was the fourth largest corporate donor to the republican party and other large donations from other tobacco companies. just so we know who the good guys and the bad guys here are. homophobia is a major factor in why we smoke more. stress on our use, our lgbt youth increases the amount of smoking. -- stress on our youth, our lgbt youth increases the amount of smoking. also related to homophobia because of societal restrictions or rejection, rather. there are not as many spaces and we go to the bars. as you well know, the bars are where the community goes to build and find community and that is a good thing but bars are also where in many cases, smoking still goes on, including in our city. the message because of that can be a that smoking is a part of who wewe are in the lgbt community. there is a quote from a youth who said, "all queer young people smoke. it is part of the package." orders that come from? san francisco public health law 19 f, two years old law, and a nu

since 2000, baucus has received $20,000 in pac contributions from altria - the $70 billion tooaaco companyal issue isn't about selling tooacco. it's about the cozy relationship between members f congress and the special interests they serve. ttere is a world of difference between being pro- business and prr-free markets. what's to top congress from businesses? lunch trucks, roadside sttnds, farmers' markets, co-opss by the way, this was a ipartisan effort. republicans and democrats overwhelmingly passed the highway bill. for more on this story isit behind the headlines dot net and follow us on twitttr and facebook. i'm mark hyman. the dream act debate.how the fight over the november referendum is heating up. tonight on fox 45 news at five.3

heaven forbid you do it, but you can gain altria's yield, too. you better believe the yield is headed higher. the dividend is going to be raised. altria boosted their payouts for the last consecutive 47 years. and at&t and verizon, verizon reported a quarter that wasn't good enough. same goes for at&t. but you know what, as long as that 10-year treasury yield stays absurdly low, it's not crazy to start buying into the weakness. and may i just add the terrific trends we saw for at&t, higher consumer use, expanded data use, less churn, meaning fewer people leaving their network, these are all in their infancy. at&t is not going to be a super growth stock like apple. att is cheap on a yield basis. i want to own it. you can't afford to hold on to the soda companies. they've got some food chain, some commodity inflation. but when their yields get to be 3 1/2, i like them. heinz, conagra, even kellogg can be owned. that yield is so good. they'll pay you. and they don't even have the momentum, but i still like them. proctor and gamble, same idea. no mom

[ train wreck ] >> a staple like altria can be owned long term. management can mess up.an go high. they have to cut it. business can under perform. it is unlikely the stock will fall off a cliff. you have to be willing to change your mind. got to be ready to sell when it's time. tech stocks, like smartphones, tablets, pcs are losers when the cycle is weak. a stock like skyworks solutions which makes components in smartphones can make you money when times are good but it can get annihilated when business isn't so hot. the only exception is if there is no cycle. think about it. there is no cheerios cycle. no hershey bar cycle. we don't talk about using more heinz ketchup in the fall than the spring. not the case with tech stocks. take the dot com run from 1998 to 2000. it was so fantastic you had to catch it. if you bought into the last two months of the rally and sold when you had to then you made money. perhaps a lot of money. back then you had to buy the parts in equipment makers because the dot coms and telco big and small were buying equipment like mad until buying wa

northrop grumman a virginia electrical utility called dominion and philip morris his parent company altria they've all donated to host this event and they will all have access to the governors attending along with n.-g.'s corporate fellows who paid twenty thousand dollars a year to belong to the group's best practices center so it seems like this alleged above the fray assembly of governors is really just a fancy pay to play event corporate fellows love closed door lunches on friday and saturday with the latter giving them a chance to mingle with gov senior staffers and guess what the press and the public will be kept totally in the dark and adding fuel to the speculation that this event could facilitate i don't know corporate giveaways and yes sponsor algeria was among a number of corporations that exploited manufacturers tax loophole signed into law by virginia governor bob mcdonnell funny right that they decided to donate money to host the gathering just shortly in mcdonnell state shortly after so another controversial governor is also going to make sure that he's there rubbing elbows w

verizon, vz, altria, eli-lily, consolidated edison, and -- no coke -- pepsi. >> oh, sorry. >> caller:e gotten fried. should i mess with the secular success or am i diversified? >> the poet laureate of the land of the rising sun who must never quit his day job. nice yielding tobacco company. pepsi, tobacco is different from drinks right now. let's hope pepsi can match coke whose quarter was unbelievable. electric, verizon reports tomorrow, telco. we have electric utility, tobacco, beverage, drug company and telco. alaska rocks. that's the best diversification portfolio we had in ages. he's a rhyming magician. scott in texas. >> caller: boo-yah and howdy from texas. >> how-dee. what's up? >> caller: the humidity. >> not the heat? >> caller: i'd like to know if i'm well diversified given the current environment with the best of breed. what should i replace and what would you replace it with. ready? >> born ready. >> caller: epd, s.o., bmy, t, bgs. >> you know them as a pickle company. all right. here we go. this is one of the greatest master limited partnerships there is. b & g, terrific

since 2000, baucus has received $20,000 in pac contributions from altria - the $70 billion tobacco companye real issue isn't about selling tobacco. it's about the cozy relationship between members of congress and the special interests they serve. there is a world of difference between being pro- business and pro-free markets. what's to stop congress from shutting down other mom & pop businesses? lunch trucks, roadside stands, farmers' markets, co-ops? by the way, this was a bipartisan effort. republicans and democrats overwhelmingly passed the highway bill. for more on this story visit behind the headlines dot net and follow us on twitter and facebook. i'm mark it's the perfect match for the perfect moment -- oreo the dunkin' way. introducing the new oreo coffee coolatta and new oreo vanilla bean coolatta. taste the fun today. america runs on dunkin'. hurry in to dunkin' and try the new oreo coolatta and donuts today. president obama ... and... first lady... michelle obama... became the center of attention... at... a... basketball game... in... d-- c...last night.../.caught... on... the...

are they really like an altria or procter & gamble?is the same safety of a dividend we're looking for? >> in terms of the margin profile, mike, what would that be? is there a comparison where you would take a look at passporters where there was an iphone launch and therefore the margins might be a little bit of a hit? >> yes. i think if you look at expectations and again i think coming out of today you'll have a meaningful change in third quarter estimates, maybe to the tune of going up to, you know, 46, 47% type level in wireless margin. currently the consensus expectation for fourth quarter on wireless is to have margins come in around 35, 36. that's a very low number. that would mean 1100 basis points hit a margin. what i would say is that unlike prior years in this fourth quarter at&t is going to be sharing what we call i-pain which is the iphone refresh pain with both sprint and verizon. they're not going to feel the brunt of the pain in our view. i think expectations are far too low on the wireless margins which should result in

you silts and altria, and torch mark and pfizer and devita in health care.look at some others overall in terms of how we've done with the overall market, the u.s. has performed better than the global market. up 8.6% for s&p. the cnbc global up just 6%. the all american s&p sectors have kept pace with the overall s&p. s&p chief investment oversea os says the best has come not from utilities but consumer discretionaries, particularly home buyers on fire because of better data out of the housing sector. you get pulte homes up 73% and lennar, up 58% and overall, really outperforming the market. >> thanks so much. we're moments away from getting the details on bank living wills. that is, what do these firms have in terms of wiggle room? what can they sell to raise capital in event of a firestorm and worsening economy. >> we'll have a special edition of the "closing bell" in just moments, stay tuned. this summer put your family in an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz now for an exceptional price during the summer event. but hurry, this offer ends july 31st. b

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. >> caller: here's my portfolio, vz, altria, eli lilly, lly, consolidated edison, ed, and pep.ince the cyclicals have all gotten fried. should i nest with the secular success or am i diversified? >> the poet laureate of the land of the rising sun. who must never quit his day job. okay. nice yielding tobacco company. pepsi, we're going to say tobacco is different from drinks. pepsi, let's hope they can match coke, coke's quarter was beautiful. con edison. we have an electric utility, a beverage company, a drug company. alaska rocks. that is the best diversification portfolio we've had in ages. he's a rhyming magician. let's go to scott in texas. scott? >> caller: jim, boo-yah, howdy from texas. >> howdy. what's up? >> caller: the humidity. jim -- >> not the heat? >> caller: i'd like to know if i'm well diversified given the present economic environment with the best. if not, what should i replace and what would you replace it with? here are you top five? are you ready? >> oh, yeah, born ready. >> caller: epd, s.o., bmy -- >> bristol-myers. >> caller: egs. >> b&g foods. all right

ubs downgrading altria to neutral from buy.see little upside of the stock from the current levels over the year. the shares up 35% but there you see it today at 35.74 and i think their call on this was with a $35 price target. >> yeah. with bernanke, we agree with this completely. bernanke's decreasing rates with the 10-year at 1.4. a crowded trade is in trade. everybody looking for yield. pe jumped up. i wouldn't be buying it at these prices. >> thank you very much. gold prices closing right now. sharon epperson is tracking the action. sharon? >> the bid of the gold market earlier this morning fizzled a bit. gold prices closed above the 1,600 level for the second straight session and near a three-week high here for the price of the precious metal. of course, a lot of comments on cnbc and on a lot of the trading desks and among the traders about draghi's comments and gave enough information to sustain the bull stance that we saw in the marketplace that was so overly bullish this morning. and it really didn't seem to be quite en

. >> grasso, altria beat estimates by two cents on higher prices which offset flat cigarette volumes. grasso, this is a name you've liked? >> i've liked it and continue to own it. i'm long it from the high 20s, they were able to pass along higher cigarette prices and came out with a new line of cigarettes. i don't smoke. i don't want my kids to smoke but a 4.6% yield i got to go where the money flow is and that's where it's going. >> we're covering the earnings action, time to answer some of your tweets on apple, sima modi, what do you have? >> a big debate on twitter, traders discussing if the apple tv and iphone 5 will be spoken about during the conference call. we have a couple of tweets coming to you, scott, apple does not need a new product because the ipad is the most influential piece of innovation in the market. bud fox goes on to say to you, scott, will you hear them talk about the rapid penetration of the iphone and the ipad in the enterprise and don't you worry, they will surprise. what do you think? >> well, with all due respect to my man bud fox, everybody needs a hot new

after the open today at least we'll see results from altria, at&t, caterpillar, jetblue, after the billcom. so there's a lot of trepidation because of the slowdown in europe and china and how that's affecting corporate america. we'll get the report cards for the next several weeks. >> remember a few years ago we used to say, things aren't moving as quickly in america as the rest of the world and that's the great part because more than half the companies on the s&p 500 make their money everywhere else in the world. now that's coming back. >> coming home to roost. hey, you know, we are racking up more debt. more american than racking up debt, like eating apple pie. looks like we put more credit -- we racked up more credit on our credit cards and made more than any other month since notify of 2007, just before the recession. $8 billion just in may on our credit cards. overall you look at the big picture, we racked up $17 billion in loans, a lot of student loans, auto loans. this can go a couple of ways. americans, the bad side, americans are relying more and more on credit cards to cover e

alte altria reported. volumes are challenging in tobacco. pricing trumps that.. pepsi is up about a percent. they talked about forex and everything else. the bottom line is they were saved by latin america. latin america, very strong and weaker than expected, north america. natural grocers seemed to go almost perfectly in terms of an ipo. everyone got what they wanted. a price at the high end of $15. opened sharply higher, it's up about 20% now and trading in a very consistent range on high volume, melissa. so pretty good ipo. and you have whole foods after the close today. i'm not teasing ahead to anything. but john mackey used to talk a ton and he got himself in some trouble. he'll be on "squawk box" tomorrow. i'm very interested to hear his take on the whole space and the general economy because we don't hear from him very much anymore. >> that is true. thank you, brian. we'll talk about that as well. >>> gary kaminsky, of course, is up next. who will you have next with you, gary? >> i promised us on friday we weren't going to talk about regulation anymore. b

. >> altria. >> it's one of the victory laps. i made 20%.with mo except if you're my kids. >> yeah, exactly. terex. >> this is remarkable. this is a company, this is cranes, platforms. it's monster, that's why i'm not going to give up on caterpillar. united rentals is the derivative. >> hsy hershey. >> they are great. >> chef space has been consolidated. kimberly-cla kimberly-clark. >> falk, fantastic ceo. big buy back. >> and sell -- >> bob bughen, best in shown. they go much higher. >> this is really bad. >> will you stop? you're talking about -- this is a fiscal cliff everyone is so worried about. >> what have we got on "mad money"? >> govidian up $3. michael ward, has everyone got the pulse of cole and ag better than michael cole. >> i can't believe he's still there. >> great guy. >> remember when he fault off those activists. "mad money" 6:00 and 11:00. we're coming back. more on this big rally after this. get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. ask me. [ male announcer ] if you think even the b