for "nightly business report," i'm meg terrell. >> to read more about deep brain stimulation and its products, head to our website, nbr.com. tomorrow, meg tells us the story of two siblings who because of medical advances can see again. fascinating stuff with the brain. >> fascinating report. mental health, such an area that many people don't want to delve into and find out how to treat, even the conventional ways. and these ways are fantastic. >> truly so. >> all right. that's "nightly business report" for tonight. i'm sharon epperson. thanks so much for watching. >> i'm tyler mathisen. thanks from me as well. have a great evening. hope to see you right back here announcer: a kqed television production. sbrocco: and everybody say "opa!" -man: opa! -woman: opa!

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meg terrell is here. meg?ngs that came out of the woodrow wilson center in weeksy is they need the federal funding in order to stimulate industry and we have an example of some of the companies already working here. a big pharma company is working to adapt their dengue vaccine technology to sika and they are already looking at that. gilad known for the hepatitis contract drugs and a potential antiviral on their vefls and testing for ebola and potentially zika so another one working in the space. a very volatile stock and one of new genetically modified and one to wipe out the specific kind and that's been a very volatile stock. quest diagnostics, a testing company, has fda approval on an emergency basis to test for zika and a new one to talk about today and the consumer company spectrum brands which makes mosquito repellants and made one that comes out among natural brands of mosquito repellants. so that's another one to watch. >> stick with us, meg. "consumer reports," as meg mentioned, releasing its findings

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. >>> pfizer is one of the few gainers today, and meg terrell has made her way back to the set. >> weeasury actions to curb inversions, and the fed said they would not pursue another one and the government has said that they don't want to do that, but there is a concern about the message sent to businesses that the treasury can step in without changing the laws and change the rules which leads to instability in business. >> nice guide on the year at least as well. part willy because of the light burden on the front. >> yes, they were encouraged to see a good quarter after this instability basically that is caused by the allergan. >> yes. and product up 17, and the best performing dow on a day that is not working. busy day for you, meg. >> thank you. >>> and that does it for us at "squawk alley" and we go back to head quarters with scott wapner. >>> carl, thank you so much, and welcome to the "halftime report" i'm scott wapner. the trade this hour is the commodity rally over? joe terranova, and stephen we s weiss, and josh brown and pete najarian. and now, with the are reaction of both

meg terrell joins us with a look inside the world of modern medicine.ood morning. >> these are protos and exciting news. it's all part of president obama's brain initiative essentially trying to do what a human g nome did f. and one of the thing as they're working on is what they call prosthetic memory. take a look. declarative memory is how we store information like facts or events. grocery lists, for example. those memories are formed in a region of the brain honey as the hippocampus. the ram system is aimed to act like prosthetic memory. it would implant electrodes in the hippocampus. they've been wirelessly transmitted externally. it would process information and deliver instructions back if help is needed. stimulating certain newer trons formulate and crawl memory. so this is actually a system where they're implanting electrodes into the brain to read the neural signals that are happening forming memories and you could actually have a system to sort of acting as a corrective system this can encourage your memory to work. >> do you think it could wo

meg terrell. the dow and s&p 500 hitting highs of the day. a tough month for apple. stock bouncing back. we'll debate it next. e you. it's a drone you control with your brain, which controls your thumbs, which control this joystick. no, i'm actually over at the ge booth. we're creating the operating system for industry. it's called predix. it's gonna change the way the world works. ok, i'm telling my brain to tell the drone to get you a copy of my resume. umm, maybe keep your hands on the controller. look out!! ohhhhhhhhhh... you know what, i'm just gonna email it to you. yeah that's probably safer. ok, cool. perfect driving record. >>perfect. no tickets. no accidents... >>that is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. >>yup... now, you would think your insurance company would cut you some slack, right? >>no. your insurance rates go through the roof. your perfect record doesn't get you anything. >>anything. perfect! for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. and if you do have an

our own meg terrell is in brooklyn in front of the federal courthouse with more. ny tweets this morning yet, meg. >> reporter: not this morning yet, sarah, but some tweets last night. martin shkreli did arrive here at federal court in brooklyn for what is largely expected to be a procedural hearing. he was arrested in december and charged with seven counts of securities fraud as well as conspiracy to commit security fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. he's been out on a $5 million bail. none of these charges relate to his now infamous acquisition of a drug and raise the price. this has to do with the capital and health care as well as his previous biotech company. essentially he defrauded investors in his hedge understood. as you mention no tweets this morning. there was one last night always taking to social media martin shkreli tweeting last night some people are traveling more than five hours to see him in court in the morning. thanks for all the support, he says, it means a lot to me. so we'll be heading into the hearing right after this and bring you mo

has become a lightning rod for the outrage over soaring drug prices appeared in court today and meg terrell >> reporter: the big news is u.s. prosecutors may file more charges against martin shkreli and his former attorney. this in a very, very short court appearance, u.s. prosecutors saying this, that they may fight charges in the next 30 days. as a reminder shkreli was arrested in december and charged with seven counts of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. left the courthouse after his hearing with his lawyer and here's what they had to say. >> today was a good day for martin shkreli. we were before a judge who clearly understands the complexity of preparing this case, and we are pleased that the judge was willing to work reasonably about scheduling. substantively we do not believe that this indictment will change in any way that affects mr. shkreli in a negative fashion. >> now, he wouldn't comment on any new indictments. michelle, back to you. >> put it on the calendar. thanks, meg. >>> energy stocks tumbling today as crude oil d

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. >> meg terrell joins us now and even with the market selloff shares are higher and so are shares oft and he's now long valeant and still short mallinckrodt. >> calls it a pair trade saying these two should trade in the same direction, thought valeant was bad on the drug pricing front then mallinckrodt is worse. he's been telling that same story for a long time. not the same traction in mallinckrodt than valeant saying all the news flow has been negative recently. he was part of that news flow. >> exactly. >> that was pretty interesting to see him kind of reversing course but not -- scott really pressed him on "halftime" saying he didn't think valeant was in the ear but it was a trade. >> interesting that he views this as a pairs trade because they have been trading in lock step since all the valeant stuff started coming out last fall and they have been trading very closely and for him to come out and boost valeant, that's why we're seeing mallinckrodt shares up that i had. >> yeah, mostly because nothing new is coming out here. came out with the enron comparison and with valeant and