glaxo posted higher quarterly results helped by consumer health care products. the company said it would consider a bid for pfizer's over the counter business should pfizer put it up for sale. but the prospect of that kind of deal could top $10 billion. that stoked fears of a dividend cut. that sent glaxo shares down 6% to $38.19. >>> profit at the world's largest biotech company amgen beat wall street expectations, helped by lower costs and higher operating margins, helping offset a drop in sales of the company's more established products. amgen raised its full year adjusted profit forecast despite taking a hit to its puerto rico operations from hurricane maria. shares initially fell following the after the bell earnings and also ended the regular session down about 1.5% to $177.50. >>> shares of advanced microdevices continued to get hammered today following the company's earnings which came out late yesterday. the chip maker's profit and revenue beat expectations, but the company says it sees revenue falling 15% quarter over quarter. and that sent shares down

. >> not long after people started yelling at him on the street, pretty much, the glaxo folks pulledearly results in mice found a tendency to grow tumors and cancer for reasons that in retrospect seem obvious. they have been flipping on all of the receptors permanently, supercharging muscle growth and fat burn but also too much cell production. julia: how come the anti-doping agency banned it? >> unfortunately, as folks in the sports world will tell you, a ban from the world sport agency is not necessarily going to discourage people. athletes who know that a substance has been banned as a performance-enhancing drugs are more likely to use it. evans helped to design the test that the world doping authority used to determine if people are using this banned substance. they banned five cyclists tested positive for it. carol: why the u.s. is la in spottingggin china -- lagging in spotting cyber threats. ♪ ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." julia: you can listen to us on the radio on sirius xm and on a.m. 11 three in new york. 91 in washington, d.c. carol: and in london and

healthcare, it was everywhere even today you saw merck down 6% i really like glaxo-smith kline tradingt a big discount and you get near over a 6% dividend yield and gillead reported but the company's cash balance sheet did a massive acquisition to secure the pipeline over the next five to 10 years so we think there's tremendous value there as well. what do you make of the market today? red on the screen people say it was the surprise spook the reports will start to see that corporate tax cut not come to fruition right away? >> yeah i think that's probably right is that some of us are taking money off the table. we haven't had a negative month all year long, so any sell-off i think is going to be short-lived >> are you worried we haven't seen that and there's too much air in this balloon? >> there could be but there's very healthy skepticism in the market. whenever i talk to someone it's when is the next shoe going to drop so very different than 1999 or 2006 when we were on the peak of our last bubble so that leads me to believe any market sell off is really short. >> we have a sell off

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