stepping back, cigna has not played in the u.s.er market, so this presents a new opportunity for us. >> yeah. >> so we don't have to enter 15, 20, 30 markets to protect an old block of business. we can look at each market on a fresh basis with a new business model which is an attractive place to be and we identified five states that were very attractive where we have great physician collaboratives and there's a good demographic to be able to sell to and over time so long as the exchange market evolves in a positive way we see the ability to continue to grow the markets to the extent they evolve in a positive way. >> okay. david, so much more we could discuss, david cordani of cigna. >>> a lot of media stocks are in rally mode. cbs at a 13-year high following last night's strong earnings and time warner cable at a new all-time high and comcast a new all-time high. time warner cable, $1.69 did beat, and doesn't appear to be slowing down the stock. >>> and overall with the markets at all-time highs, again, this morning coming up the d

next up, cigna. all about health maintenance operator pricing. as well as the gains in the company's portfolio when it invests money from your insurance premium. both are going up. despite president obama's suggestion that health care costs are going down, cigna has been able to get higher prices for its health insurance. ever higher prices. at the same time it has a major exposure to real estate. those seem to be getting better and better and better after taking a beating for a long time. then there's cabot oil & gas. one of the fastest growing oil and gas names in the world. cabot has a new market in new england, rapidly changing heating to cheap natural gas that will be from cabot when it gets its pipeline built. how about amgen. all time high. acquiring onyx pharma. a fresh growth injection. this combination gives amgen a fast-growing -- and once again amgen, remember, has now become a growth stock. that's exactly how -- the best bang for shareholders' bucks. lockheed martin finds itself on the all-time high list by default. supposed to be de

still with us is chris godding, head of global equities at cigna wealth management. bigger election topic than it was before. this is certainly something that the public has seen coming. i mean, even the imf has warned about this funding gap for greece, a couple of months ago. basically it shouldn't be a surprise. are markets complacent about it? >> they expect to change from policy, the hard-line into the election has been to satisfy the german electorate. the markets are not going to put germany at risk, but ultimately there has to be some consegs alo concessions along the line for the system to work and germany play its part. >> the tax payer is not going to be footing the bill anymore. >> i think the taxpayer, if the bailout plans is put into effect will be at risk, so that's the -- there will be a lot of discussion about that from if that's required in a -- if one of the countries has a structural issue with regard to debt. >> okay. chris, we'll leave it there. still to come on the show, with in release date for the x box, microsoft will have to pull something o

basically a good thing but yet we got to leave it there thanks for making the point so clearly out of alan cigna the social studies director on the line from new york state thanks sir thank you very much house university. some of the detainees who maintain the u.s. his military is stepping up efforts to try and break the hunger strike the latest revelations point to the alleged sexual abuse of prisoners got a huge account of his that side of it. every day in guantanamo it's groundhog day whether you're a guard or a prisoner that's how one officer described life and get mail every day is the same as the last then there is no escape for many inmates it's a painful routine routine that includes regular searches and force feeding twice a day for those who are on hunger strike the latest account from the prison comes from a british resident named shakur amr he's been held for eleven years of good will never charged with any crime shuckers been on hunger strike since january has also refused to leave his selve he writes i have said what i want to do just sit there for a week doing nothing just sitting

word evacuate and insist the teeseven systemnd is planning with the obama administration sees on a cignaas a significant of its maturing in evacuation and with the administration is now calling and ordered departure. >> cool with the use of the word evacuate. >> it's a technical term. >> is it? i think it is i nontechnical term. ordered departure is the techcal term. so if you -- >> if you look up in the dictionary definition. >> what wld you call if you are suddenly told you have to leave and a plan is flawed man. forced to get on and leave. >> and ordered departure. lou: the etymological nonsensed. keep all the warnings to american citizens not to travel to yemen and to those the to leave immediately to the nothing more than a travel advisory and the obama administration shows to update it this very morning. declaring that advisory has been in effect for 11 years, lving the question why such a construction of language is as important to the state department. not remotely clear at this hour, nor why the state department would not have taken earlier note that americans were traveling to

cigna literally the signature of the maybe not literally of the eisenhower administration richard nixon was all about maintaining this country's infrastructure building roads building hospitals building schools when did the republicans become the party of we hate america. never but look regardless mariel. please you know irrespective of the actual merits of these spending propositions the president promised when he was on the campaign trail that any any corporate tax reform would be revenue neutral you know the idea that he's just going to he's going to go off and use as he claims the revenue from closing the corporate loopholes to build infrastructure in america and jumpstart manufacture honor that says he's going to do what's right for that because because a lot of people are the idea here's what's here's what's right there's nothing wrong with it on its face tone but if a democratic politician tells you that a spending program is going to be revenue neutral and by the way they just don't have the details of it yet your b.s. detector ought to be going off five alarms i mean we've had

, and it is either going to be cigna or blue cross mass if i work for the teamsters. guest: it sounds like you kind of got that down, you know where to go and who your primary payer is, depending on the particular circumstance. the question of what this does to your federal coverage -- i want to say that open enrollment is this fall for the federal government and you will have to wait and see what their choices are. there is no particular reason why it would change much. but insurers always make decisions whether they want to offer federal employees -- a pretty vibrant pool. you can see that happening this fall and see what your options are and see what your costs on that would be. but you're definitely right, you would have a lot of insurance and overlap there. complicated case, very interesting. guest: why taiwan did not choose the united states is a model. host: good morning, kelly. caller: thank you so much for taking my call. our situation has been a little bit different. my husband was full-time employed, but paying in the affordable care act, my husband's emplo

green horn capital cut its stake in christi in cigna. third point, dissolve stakes in hess, spider gold, delta automotive and abbvie. >> okay. real quick, check it out, by the way, walmart reporting g2 eps $1.34. they're adding $2.7 billion in net new sales. we can go through this. becky. why don't you take a quick look? i will give you a little j.p. morgan news. the executives who supervised the traders at the london whale scan dan reportedly unlikely to face charges. yesterday they brought criminal charges against two former traders. they make passing references to the former bosses. chief investment officer, the top former executive, achilles macris are mentioned by name. they says they put pressure, though, on subordinates at one point to deal with the high degree risk taken on the portfolios of derivative trades that led to those losses. again, we go back to this issue, if you will charge the underlings with fraud, it's hard to charge the supervisors with fraud because os sensibly you have defrauded the supervisors. that's what's go

caller: i think his name was cigna. he made a comment over the controversy of obama care.appen. he said because the insurance companies know obamacare is the best deal they're ever going to get from the federal government for health care, and so they backed off. i wasn't surprised at all when roberts was the dissenting vote against overturning it. stephanie: yeah, because he's pro business. >> mr. potter nothing but a warped, frustrated old man. stephanie: he's a good mr. potter. >> he's done my show several times new by the way, lindsey lohan, i'm required to do little rehab stories. she's dating a guy she met in rehab. i think that's supposed to be a no-no. she had a lover in rehab, a 23-year-old male patient. >> i don't think you're supposed to have relations in rehab. stephanie: the ever comes to light a day after it was discovered chaka kahn was in rehab and left because she couldn't take lindsey's diva behavior. stephanie: i wonder if they had a say it a few times. roll call for the meeting. chaka kahn. chaka kahn. chaka kahn. chaka kahn. chaka kahn. chaka kahn. >> s

. >>> other headlines, cigna earning $1.78 for the second quarter. 18 cents better than the street expected. also raised its outlook citing strong sales growth and favorable trends in medical costs and operating expenses. >>> there was economic data out of china overnight. better than expected. pretty much expectation was for it to go down. it went the opposite way. gordon chang, the author of "the coming collapse of china" and columnist at forbes. i'm expecting you to say the numbers are fake and we shouldn't believe them. >> the hsbc purchasing managers index was true. that fell from 48.2 to 47.7. >> but the pmi number -- the thing that people look at -- i don't know if they're supposed to look at it or not, but that went up and was supposed to go down. >> everyone expected it to fall from 50.1 down to 49 point something, going from expansion to contraction. instead it went up. it is not consistent with what we know about the chinese economy. so, yeah, i think it is fitting. as the economy deteriorates, the gap between what the government tells us and what is really going on, i think is w

>> the good news is most of the health plans now including united and cigna, anthem, a number of health plans on the leading edge have apps, applications that allow people to know a couple things and some third parties like compare health and others. this is a fast-moving field. whether an employee or consumer or patient needs to know, what is it going to cost them? even the data on charges, nobody pays most of those so it is a question of what do i pay as the consumer if i buy something or gonna visit, what will my plan a? because even if i might have coinsurance of 20% but if i haven't met my deductible i am going to pay basically both so you want an apps and we have more and more mobile apps on smart phones to take with you and they will tell you what it will cost you, what will it cost your employer, in some instances there are alternatives like they will show you or tell you, you can go to a retail clinic for example land have the same thing for less. these retail clinics are very exciting because they keep the field much more competitive. those are easier to understand. in additio

>> yeah so most of the health plans now including united at the cigna anthem and number of health plans are are on the leading edge have applications that allow people to know a couple of things and also some third parties. this is a fast-moving field and what a consumer patient need to know are what's it going to cost them so even that data on charges we know nobody pays most of those so it's a question of what do i pay as a consumer if i buy something or go on a visit and what will my plan pay because even if i might have coinsurance at 20% that if i have my deductible and going to pay basically both so you want wanted and then we have more and our mobile apps which are in your smartphones which you can take with you and it they will tell you what will it cost your employer, to in some instances there are some alternatives like they will actually show you or tell you that you can go to a retail clinic for example and have the same thing for less. as you know we think they are very exciting because they keep the field much more competitive so those are easier to understand. in addition

it's going to take more than zeta and more than cigna. it will take all of nine, all african-americans organizations to work together. we're here for the march, not to see you whose you this weekend or how many people show up. but we need to listen to what we can do to help our first african-american president move this country to another level. and get rid of all of this injustice in jobs and everything. we can only do if we worked together. it's not about zeta. it's not about the sigma anymore. it's about african-americans. so zeta phi beta is willing to join hands with any group who is ready to move our country to the next level, as we continue to fight for our rights. >> as look at the history, there was a lot of organizations coming together in what i would like to call teamwork to make sure that the march a curve. where's that teamwork now? do you see us translating that to today and into the future? talk a little bit about the perspective of not one person the standing together to get things done. >> well, first of all, the context

>> so, the good news is that most of health plans now, some including united, ethnic, cigna, and, a number of health plans on the leading edge have abs, applications that allow people to know a couple of things and there also some third parties like compare health and others. so this is a fast-moving field. one employer or a consumer patient each know is what's going to cost them. so even even say on charge to we know it's a question of what do i pay as the consumer effort either by something or go on a visit, what will my plan pay? because even if i might have coinsurance at 20%, but if i haven't met my deductible i'm going to be basically both. so you want an app, and we have more and more mobile apps, which on the smart phones you can take with you, and they will tell you what it will cost you, what will it cost your employer, what will, in some instances there some alternatives, like to actually show you are tell you that you could go to a retail clinic, for example, and have the same thing for less. as you know, we think they're very exciting because they keep the field really much mo