anadarko shares soared. up 14% on the news that they're going to have it pay $5 billion in this settlement. and that's because they think it could have been a whole lot worse. in december a federal judge had suggested that a fair settlement in this huge case could be as high as $14 billion. so the fact that it was only a mere $5 billion, that sent the energy industry into celebration mode. $5 billion? that's the cost of doing business. anadarko's a $51 billion company. so this find to them is almost a rounding error. on the same day they were ordered to pay that $5 billion fine, investors poured $6 billion back into the company's stock. they made money on the deal. only in the oil and chemical industry can getting slapped with a $5 billion fine, the largest fine ever in the history of the republic, only in that industry can that result in a great day for your bottom line. it pays to be the most profitable industry the world has ever known. >>> good tuesday morning. husky nation. uconn gets one national champ

anadarko has agreed to settle. federal bankruptcy judge ellen gruber considered anadarko's arguments on how much it should pay as well as the plaintiffs request for attorneys fees. anadarko is set to pay $5 billion to $6 billion in the u.s. settlement. coming up, financing politics, the head of the center for responsible politics says that the campaign finance ruling yesterday will make it more difficult to track political donations. we will have more on that story when "bottom-line" on bloomberg television continues in just a moment. theow to washington -- with second day of fallout to the u.s. supreme court's latest that to loosen campaign-finance laws, phil mattingly joins me now. walk us through exactly what this is going to me for this year and beyond. phones of big-money political donors ringing off the folk -- off the hook? >> donors in both parties have actually received phone calls from fundraisers, especially those who were walking right up to the line of how much they could donate. practical applications

anadarko shares soared.on the news that they're going to have it pay $5 billion in this settlement. and that's because they think it could have been a whole lot worse. in december a federal judge had suggested that a fair settlement in this huge case could be as high as $14 billion. so the fact that it was only a mere $5 billion, that sent the energy industry into celebration mode. $5 billion? that's the cost of doing business. anadarko's a $51 billion company. so this find to them is almost a rounding error. on the same day they were ordered to pay that $5 billion fine, investors poured $6 billion back into the company's stock. >>> first republicans wanted to repeal and replace the affordable care act. remember that? and then they just wanted to repeal it, you know, because it's just like the worst thing that's ever happened to the united states of america. and now they've come all the way back to wanting to repeal and replace it. and in all that time not one of them has figured out what they want to replac

anadarko petroleum skyrocketing on a new announcement. get to nicole petallides at new york stock exchange. >> when you look at an intraday chart of this one, you can tell something happened in anadarko's world and anadarko is soaring 13% on a settlement of pollution cleanup claims much this relates to 2009 bankruptcy. kerr mcgee under umbrella of anadarko, they reach ad settlement for cleanup claims and the stock is on the rise, what it does it takes out uncertainty of this looming over the stock. meantime, anadarko agrees to pay out a total of just over five billion dollars to the plaintiffs. and there you go. so now it's settled and it is jumping. melissa, i wash my fruit for the kids but not for myself because i'm quick and running and i really should. melissa: those dry cleaning hangers are killing our i.q. who knew. nicole, thanks so much. before we head to break i had to show this one. this is fabulous and wackiest hotels in the world. this one included. traveling snack lovers can get air doughnut fix ad this incredible sheraton ho

anadarko shares rallied 14%. the emergency landing of a delta flight is under scrutiny. the f-a-a says on wednesday a laguardia bound jet, was diverted to jfk because of a failed hydraulic system. the plane then rolled onto a grassy area off the runway. investigators still don't know why. the passengers and crew were not hurt. banks are bracing for a new hacking scam called "unlimited operations" government regulators say the hack attacks occur on holidays and weekends...when extra money is loaded into atms and banks during off hours. a recent attack pulled in $40 million from only 12 debit card accounts, according to the government. consumer privacy advocates recommend using credit cards rather than debit acounts. citigroup faces a criminal investigation. the fbi is heading up the probe into citigroup's mexican unit: banamex. the focus, is on whether the bank ignored warnings signs. citigroup disclosed in february apparent fraud involving banamex and an oil services company. the bank says at least one employee processed falsifiied docuemnts allowing the oil service comp

anadarko up about 15%. >> the analysts see upside on the securities side.t's down by nearly 4%. >> yeah, nothing's getting help today. >> in a down day. >> b. riley upgrading the name. they also like increased sales productivity. their target, $68. that's about 28% higher than the current price. >> stock number four, skater shop zumies getting an upgrade. it is helping this stock. >> yeah, rad, dude. not rad, rite-aid's ticker. up 4% right now. their target increased from 31 to 27. so that's about 20% upside. preliminary march same-store sales up 2.4%. versus the 1.4% estimate. >> let's bring you an under-the-radar pick. an initiation of buy at citi. >> not a name we've talked about for a long time. remember, this company was spun off of ford 14 years ago. analysts at citigroup and the stock's up .2% had their target at $103. that's about 15 bucks higher than it sits right now. >>> let's do "talking numbers." hitting one stock each day. today it is blackberry because the ceo, john chin, saying if i cannot make money on handsets, i will not be in handsets. v

hasenergy firm anadarko agreed to pay more than $5 billion in what the justice department hailed as thelargest payment ever for cleaning up environmental contamination. the case involves thousands of sites across the country polluted by nuclear fuel and other toxic material and more than 8000 people who say they were sickened by chemical exposure. anadarko had tried to avoid liability for pollution caused by kerr-mcgee, an energy company it acquired in 2006. the payments include $1 billion to the navajo nation for damages from kerr-mcgee's uranium mining. the activist and journalist barrett brown has reportedly reached at lee deal with prosecutors after 19 months behind bars. supporters say brown has been unfairly targeted for investigating the highly secretive world of private intelligence and military contractors. last month, prosecutors dropped a number of charges against him related to the hacking of the private intelligence firm stratfor, which exposed how the firm monitors activists and spies for corporate clients. around was still facing up to 70 years in prison. the plea deal re

liabilities in a case, anadarko paying $5.1 billion in the claim. take a look, up more than 13%. >> courtney, thank you. >>> if you aring whoing for big returns, close your eyes. click your heels together, and think, there's no place like -- a second home. diana olick is here to explain. diana? >> mandy, they are unwrapping the boats i swear there are some cherry clos blossoms coming out. spring is here and summer around the corner. last year we saw a big jump in jakz ho vacation home sales. the highest share since the peak in 2006. although we are still one-third off that peak. all of that activity bumped prices of vacation homes up 12.5% year over year. of course, 38% of all buyers were all cash. so sales of vacation homes, of course, translate into more vacation rentals. i talked to the vp of home away, a vacation rental site. john gray said more than half of their vacation home owners say they are already booked up for at least half of the summer. better get moving. interestingly, he says vacation homeowners are getting younger, taking advantage

. >>> the anadarko petroleum corporation reached a settlement with the federal government.vers the cleanup of thousands of contamination sites around the country including radioactive waste piles in the navaho nation. it is the largest settlement ever for environmental contamination. >>> and bad news if you rent your home. rents are projected to rise for a fifth straight year. demands for rental housing has grown since the economy has gotten stronger and supply hasn't kept pace. job growth has made it possible for more people to rent an apartment, but rising home prices prevent them from buying. nationwide rent rose 3.2% last year. anne-marie? >> all right. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. >>> straight ahead in sports the san antonio spurs put their 19-game winning streak on the line. and an unpleasant encounter between a major league baseball player and a fan. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs morning news" sponsored by digestive advantage daily probiotic. try our two-week tummy takeback program today. probiotic. try our two-week tummy takeb

the stock was up 14.5% yesterday anadarko.o you think, though, this having removed the liability increases the takeover chatter game again because it becomes more real? nobody is worried as much as the liability. >> when you look at exxon and what they have to do to grow, they have to buy a company the size of anadarko. i think the world of their management and they've got great properties and selling off some. anadarko has been the bluest chip of the speindependents, if were royal dutch, i would make a tender. my charitable trust owns it. it's as good as eog. certainly as good as continental resources, but i don't know, it's gotten so big so fast. maybe you can't take it over. >> then there's the exxon news, apparently this report on fracking isn't going to come out until the fall, september, sometime around there. but a little more transparency from a company that has a lot of critics saying they should be more transparent. >> i think -- i'm a pro-fracker fan. i drank a beak of the fracking fluid. i think that halliburton ha

anadarko will pay for the cloon up of thousands of sites contaminated years ago. those are are the headlines, "america tonight" is up next. on america tonight, the fort hood gunman, his mental health, and his quest for help. a pattern of mass military shootings p p does it reveal we are failing our troops in. >> any time you lose any of your people, there's an issue. we don't have the facts. we will get the facts. >> also tonight, serving life without a trial. rapists and child moless tors sent to a place that looks like prison, but it is not. inside the controversy of commitment centers. these are children, and so i fight every day to make it so that these monsters are as far away as humanly possible. >> and tweeter with a spy. the u.s. gov bizarre social media plan to bring chaos to cuba, from cutting off castro's beard to killer clams. the messenger is exposed. >> good evening, everyone, and thank you for being with us. we begin with the fort hood shooting and it's aftermath, in depth coverage tonight, mill fair investigators at the largest army post are search

everybody loves anadarko today? stuart: everyone knows $5.5 billion, when the uncertainty is gone you can proceed forward with the company itself and its future profits and a new high. thanks very much indeed. i want to move on to the tape of mozilla and their ceo brendan bike. i think that is the correct pronunciation. he is stepping down after employees complained about his politics. six years ago he had donated money to support a ban on gay marriage in california. he had been ceo only a few days, now he is gone. can you be up front about your political views if you are the ceo of a large company. charles payne is here. we don't want to get into a discussion whether game there is good, bad or otherwise. that is not my point. we want to know about the issue of executives and their freedom to say their political views in public. charles: you cannot be politically incorrect. we are not saying it is fair or anything. there are certain things. a lot of areas you can go to as a ceo but you cannot be politically incorrec

shares of anadarko petroleum are adding to yesterday's big gains in premarket trading. justice department announced anadarko will pay almost $5.2 billion to settle its current issues. anadarko shares jumped over 14% after that deal. >> can i make one comment about that? >> yeah. >> i don't know if you saw earlier this week, he made the comment that companies should settle because look what happens. he says, look, every time if these companies can just put this stuff behind them, the stock goes up, the ceo gets a bonus. he made a reference to -- i'm just suggesting. and look how the market reacted to that settlement. by the way, they did some awful things. what they were doing, dumping stuff, was pretty egregious. >> but factories is almost worse than what goes on at the insider trading. >> and we will make a mountain out of every insider trading, this and that, when it comes to add stuff. and we do the headline and we forget about it. >> you're talking about real things here. >> yes. >> the farm -- you know, not a couple of extra molecules of co2 in this case. this is p

. >> tyler, this one here is anadarko petroleum, apc.wereberg report, the epa and just is department plan to announce an agreement today related to its liabilities in a tronnics case. a $25 billion lawsuit brought by the u.s. and tronics which tests whether money can be recovered from a successor to a polluting company even after a bankruptcy cleaned the slate for that company. this case a very big one for corporate's action watchers. that stock currently trading the way it is now. >> thanks, do many. >>> obamacare, a tough sell for millennials. the voice is back, and will tell us why. back in a minute. >> announcer: next, the "powyou are house a a are" power house." are" power ho" these don't look clean. [ doorbell rings ] the johnsons! stall them. first word... uh...chicken? hi, cascade kitchen counselor. stop stalling and start shining with cascade platinum packs. over time, platinum fights cloudy residue 3x better than the competing gel. it's so powerful it even helps keep the dishwasher sparkling. avoid embarrassing moments... at le

anadarko's a $51 billion company. so this find to them is almost a rounding error. on the same day they were ordered to pay that $5 billion fine, investors poured $6 billion back into the company's stock. they made money on the deal. only in the oil and chemical ip industry can getting slapped with a $5 billion fine, the largest fine ever in the history of the republic, only in that industry can that result in a great day for your bottom line. it pays to be the most profitable industry the world has ever known. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. >>> first republicans wanted to repeal and replace the affordable care act. remember that? and then they just wanted to repeal it, you know, because it's just like the worst thing that's ever happened to the united states of america. and now they've come all the way back to wanting to repeal and replace it. and in all that time not one of them has figured out what they want to replace it with. and even their cheerleaders at fox news now no longer believe that they ever will repeal

anadarko petroleum up 14.5%. since 2008,gain closing at an all-time high.inally settled a deal 5.5 billion when it bought kerr-mcgee, the refiner. they put up a high note. obviously, it is moving about. i want to talk about barnes & noble's. so tougher barnes & noble. >> when was the last time you went there and bought something? >> i went to browse -- >> there you go. >> and that was probably the first time in two years. >> i go there to check out magazines when i need to kill time. first custom knitters -- procrastinators. more than one million people the last day to sign up for health care. at minetterector health solutions joins us. welcome. what are the early indications the late sign-ups were the young , healthy people that the system needs to work effectively? >> we don't know for sure, but most likely, the answer is yes. if you think about who comes in first, those who really need the coverage right now. we saw some of that at the end of last year. you think about the people waiting until the last minute, they probably don't need the coverage yet, s

. >> number nine, anadarko than $400 paying more million to settle fraud claims.st environmental settlement one by the u.s. government. >> number eight is google. not labs has suspended sales of a smoke alarm after discovering that it could be switched off unintentionally. google bought next intent -- nest in february. accusing-- they are sampson of misleading jurors at the start of a trial over smartphone technology. losses bid to show how they used three of five pence. mixed results for global payments. they maintain their revenue forecast. >> number five, online technology,-- align who make the invisible line technology. >> number four, gm. the company said deliveries in china rose nearly 8% last month driven by demand for buick and cadillac vehicles. gm lost the title of china's foreign automakers in 2013 hoping 19 new worry fresh tomatoes will use sales by 10%. >> number three, carmax, reporting their biggest annual jump in same-store sales in more than decade, saying they sold more than 500,000 vehicles in a single year for the first time ever. technologywo,

paying for the cleanup by splitting up the company but the oil and gas operations which were sold to anadarko still profitable and will have to pay. the word of the day on wall street is jobs, the monthly job reports is due out later this morning and expect hiring to pick up in march following a rough winter, they are predicting 200,000 new jobs added last month but that may not be enough to get the economy back on track. >> the u.s. economy really needs 7.5 million jobs to get to a prerecession unemployment rate at full labor market participation rates, that is slow progress of the current rate of hiring. you will not see a crazy increase to 300,000 jobs created per month but if you did and recovery would still be years and years away. >> reporter: we will have complete analysis of the jobs report when it's released around 8:30 eastern. on water street it's up 24 points up and the dow starting the day at 16572. the s&p 500 kicks off the day at 1888. the nasdaq is at 4237. overseas markets ending the day mostly lower but china rose three quarters of a percent and european markets are higher.

anadarko, chesapeake, cabot, peabody, diamond offshore.er was allergan, of course, for separate reasons. >> right. >> if you would have been smart enough to take a flier on energy at the beginning of the month, you're happy today. >> with the dow down 118 points, the utility the only sector in the green. you're seeing exelon, con ed, pepco, a lot of the names in the green. that's the ultimate defensive space, so that in addition to the 10-year, can show you how investor sentiment is shaping up today. >> yeah, overall for the week, a narrow range relative to the remainder of the year. s&p's been -- yesterday on the dow, that was hard to watch. hopefully, we'll get more action in the next hour. that's what brian sullivan will bring us as we head into the weekend. >> yeah, we were debating about the unchanged thing. it's, what, the first time in 13 years. >> yeah, since christmas eve 2001. tyler mathisen said, does that mean santa's coming tomorrow? >> yeah, yeah, a big question, guys. what did you get us here for "fast money halftime"? >> no