altria, there's a match game thing going on there.new york community, high yielding financial. keep altria. between pepsi and procter, keep pepsi. proctor is a work in progress although mr. mcdonald is doing much better. we're going to put in yes, a health care company. at this point i'm going a little aggressive. go celgene. let's go to ed in new york, please. ed? >> caller: hey. >> hey. modern portfolio. it's a modern portfolio. aig, dbax, and facebook, fb and michael kors, kors. >> modern portfolio. it's a modern portfolio. i have popeye's. i do love the red beans and rice. aig is my favorite financial. michael kors is the terrific apparel company where they still charge $200 even at the outlets. dynavax. we're going with that one. and facebook is not doing as badly as everybody else thinks. internet company, financial, apparel company, biotech and we've got a restaurant, i say, bingo! delores in new york. delores? >> caller: hi, jim. this is a brooklyn boo-yah to you. >> i'll be there this weekend. i love clinton hill. it's really

altria, conoco phillips, new york community, high-yielding financial. keep altria.epsi. we're going to put in a health care company. at this point i'm going a little aggressive. go celgene. let's go to ed in new york, please. ed? >> caller: hey. >> hey. modern portfolio. it's a modern portfolio. i have popeye's. i love the red beans and rice. aig is my favorite financial. michael kors is the terrific apparel company where they still charge $200 even at the outlets. dynavax. and facebook is not doing as badly as everybody else. internet company, financial, apparel company, biotech and we've got a restaurant, i say, bingo! deloris in new york. deloris? >> caller: hi, jim. boo-yah to you. >> i'll be there this weekend. clinton hill is coming back. go ahead. >> caller: we love you, jim. you do so much for us. >> thank you. >> caller: i want to know if i'm diversified. my first stock is target, second is sirius xm, third is clorox, fourth is disney and last is johnson & johnson. >> all right. let me go to work. the classic final station, 26 can't be beaten. sirius is ent

this morning's summit would not be possible without the support of altria. in her role, sara is responsible for developing and implementing federal legislative strategies focusing on corporate tax, corporate governance and employee benefits issues. prior to joining altria, she was a manager at the international practice at kpmg's washington national tax practice. virginia. sara. >> thank you, connie. good morning, everyone. good morning, and thank you to our esteemed panelists. altria, a fortune 200 family of companies with about 9,000 employees in the u.s., is pleased to be part of today's discussion. we are here because we believe a more simplified tax code that includes lowering the corporate tax rate will stimulate america's economy and create jobs. in fact, last april we participated in a similar discussion with national journal and getting beyond the gridlock and reforming the tax code. what has changed since then? we are still talking about the problem of corporate taxes and metaphors of being stuck, of nearing and impending disaster. and from the whi

even if you hate smoking, it shouldn't stop you from owning altria.difference is if you get to participate in the upside when the stock goes higher. if you're an environmentalist, no reason to avoid buying an oil stock. you can always donate some of your profits to the sierra club if you want to make a difference. i've been hammering this point home for years. it's very rare to find a company that makes lots of money by going out of its way to do great things for humanity. not a criticism, just not what businesses are doing. however, lately we're witnessing a trend where certain companies are doing well by doing good. i want to talk about it here on healthy week here at nbc universal. because it is all about health. a handful of chains have figured out a substantial number of people really do care about their health and have had incredible success by making good tasting food or good organic products that are good for you. take panera bread, the quick serve chain that my daughter clued me in to many years ago because they make healthy salad. everyone o

tobacco giant altria is moving lower. is this strictly a yield play?u clearly don't go to the space for high growth. >> you don't go for growth. but this stock has gone from roughly $36 down to $32. the dividend's there the whole time. i think you get into the stock here, you get into the dividend but you could get a move back up to the $36 level. >> mike is looking at intel. he wants to know if he should add to his position. the stock down 6% over the past month. who should we go to for this one? stephanie? >> i actually think that intel has held up given all the bad news that's been out there. the company already lowered guidance negative 2% sequential growth which is way worse than seasonality. i'd know the bear case, that they are all pcs. but i do think they have different products coming out next year. i like the dividend yield so $20 is where i'd be buying it. >>> let's do a couple of "pops & drops." merck. 4% pop. >> upgraded today by jeffries. i think this company is going to see growth improving, margins expanding. they're growing through acq

versus the old north american grocery which would be altria.he yield is quite good and keeps you in. they are looking to grow the business. >> of course, alcoa, kicks off on tuesday. an interesting note yesterday, of the preannouncement, four out of five. don't fight the fed dynamic. >> some of them are secular concerns. some of them are international fedex. a lot of the other transports are not. but i do want to say this. he has done everything he can be to make fantastic bottles for soda he to making the skin of the ipad. in the end, he is still hostage to currency, to the inventory of alum nam and high cost and high pollution in order to get people to work. what a tough job he has. >> yeah. >> funny guy. >> east german, terrific sense of humor. >> taking a look at fdf, family dollar, i didn't expect a pop of 2 1/2%. their outlook for the first quarter was cautious. the range, high end of that range and same-store sales growth of 4%. consumables is just food. it's a lower margin business. >> i, too, was surprised. and when i visit my family d

[applause] >> on behalf of national journal, i'd like to thank altria, our distinguished panelists and you, our audience, for joining us this morning. i also want to invite you on november 7th at the reagan center to our day after the election conference. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> the national journal wrapping up this forum looking at how congress and the white house should deal with the pending fiscal cliff. quick programming note that you can watch this event in its entirety tonight at 8 eastern on our companion network, c-span3. today here on c-span2 we have more live coverage coming up at the top of the hour. we'll take you to the hudson institute for a discussion on internet privacy. a federal trade commissioner and a fellow with the hudson institute will look at proposals from congress and the executive branch and consider the government's role in online privacy. that's coming up live, again, at noon eastern on c-span2. >>> and this afternoon education advisers to the president and the romney campaigns on their candidate's education platforms. that'll star

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so the question that we raised was why is it that altria wasn't next?try to give it some explanation and because of the limitation of time, i would give only a few points. by the way they've tried everything. the arab spring started in 1988 and even then self immolation it was not, you know, it wasn't algeria in 2007. so they repeated this and there were 10,000 riots in 2010 alone. these were identified algeria so why didn't it happen? well, one of them is you can think whatever you want but it's not a state if you compare it to tunisia. i remember algerians going to tunisia and saying algeria is much better. it's free. it's a democracy compared to what was going on and tunisia. if you look at the cartoons in the newspapers, the media and so on and so forth. so there wasn't that stress that you could see in tunisia for instance or even in egypt. but at the same time, the liberalization and i will tell you why we talked about 88 and bring it back because, you know, one of the things that is being repeated is the fact that how the authorities reacted to t