. >>> a shot in the arm for merck. the german chemical firm and drugmaker says it is considering selling its consumer health business >>> and remember what happened to saddam hussein, words of warning from russian president vladimir putin to north korea as he uses his speech at the become r ishgbric summit >>> good morning we have a lot to get through let's kick things off with a look at the markets. the stoxx 600 is up by 0.3%, recovering from yesterday's small losses to the tune of 0.5% yesterday we were under the spell of the latest aggression coming out of north korea, but it seems like we're moving on today. when it comes to the insdices on by one, when it comes to the ftse, dax and cac, they're all in the green the xetra dax is eking out a gain of respectable 0.6% merck is one of the top performers there the ftse 100 up by 0.3%. we have that big m&a deal this morning which is pushing the mid cap index higher aveva jumping nicely there, up by more than 20% schneider doing well on the french market. >>> when it com

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is about the idea of this kind of investing came about after something happened to me in the '80s merckat the time the greatest pharmaceutical company in the world because of its reputation for new drugs, while constantly improving on old ones, pioneered work with the harvard medical school that showed a link between heart attacks and cholesterol. the company called a cholesterol lowering agency. but wall street was skeptical of the linkage and category, so it was considered to be an unimportant new drug little did they know that statins would become the greatest selling class of drugs in history i can recall merck doubling when the sales came through and since i've been hooking for the next drug from a pharmaceutical company that has. what you want to avoid is a company with one or two drugs in the pipeline that may not be approved some day by the fda i've had tremendous success isolating these companies, the good ones, whether it be bristol-myers from its breakthrough cancer therapy, or celgene with its exploitation of the blood gene it's one of the most important kinds of stories you

. >>> merck says a closely watched clinical trial shows combining a drug with chemotherapy appears to provide durable benefits for people with advanced lung cancer that was previously untreated. the fda approved the drug cocktail in may. merck says people in the trial survived 19 months on average before the disease got worse versus about nine months for those on chemotherapy alone. >>> the fda sent a warning letter to a unit of fiz their manufacturers the epipen saying the company failed to investigate product failures even in cases where patients died the epipen is sold by mylan but is produced by pfizer's meridian unit between 2014 and this year meridian received 171 complaints about injectors that failed to activate in a statement pfizer says it is confident in the safety and effectiveness of epipens produced at its site. >> when we come back, wells fargo one year later did they manage to shake off the fake accounts scandal? >>> and then later this morning, don't miss an interview, nelson peltz is joining "squawk on the street" to talk about his new white pipe argaper arguing for

some of the donations include 5 million from apple and 1 million each from albertson's and merck. according to nielsen, more than 15.5 million viewers tuned in .cross the big four broadc >>> and that's it for "nightly business report" for tonight. i'm sue herera. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks from me as well, i'm tyler mathisen. see ♪ >> this is "bbc world news america." >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. >> planning a vacation escape that is relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. you can find it here, in aruba. families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm sunny days,

lisa merck owski is studying the bill and john mccain won't say where he stands. don't have the vote but holding the vote next week. capitol hill. >>> optimism and aggravation are two themes from former president obama. >> legislation we passed was full of things we needed fixed. wasn't perfect, but it was better. >> republican senators trying to pass reform health care bill by the end of the month. despite this battle, former president remains optimistic. >> the world has never been healthier, wealthier, better educated or in many ways more to tolerant or less violent than it is today. >> keynote at event for bill and melinda gates foundation in new york. >>> new developments on the russia investigation. robert mueller is looking closely at president himself now, including the firing of fbi director james comey and meeting with rusian officials in the oval office the very next day. chief white house correspondent with new details. >> reporter: clearest indication yet that special counsel is looking into the actions of president trump himself. "new york times" fir

word corp with c eight with spelter west virginia with round up you can replace the word dow with merck pfizer astra zeneca any other major company months santo and du pont as you pointed out it's the exact say it's like they're all reading out of the same playbook you know we make this horrible toxin our internal studies show that it's terrible and kills people and by the way is killing ten thousand people around the globe annually but anyway we make this toxin it's killing people we know it we present this to the regulatory agencies we tell them look these studies can't really be trusted trust us though it's a safe chemical regulatory agency signs off on it the lawsuits begin the documents are uncovered it's the same story every time the corporate media then has to play catch up so like suddenly oh well we didn't know this was happening we didn't know what was going on yes you did independent outlets have been reporting on it for years even in the clase a quote poor pirate the e.p.a. itself has come out with negative studies on it corporate media ignored it just like they are have yea

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. >> merck short, when you ask him about the plan, he did not say it was going to be deficit neutral.e really deflected on that and i think that may be where this is headed. the republicans say we need growth and we will deal with deficits later. >> bret: long gone are the debt clocks behind anybody talking on the campaign trail. >> one of the things i think will be a test here is president trump continues to say it's going to help middle-class people, not rich people. i think there will be a big debate when we know the details about who actually gets the lion's share of the help with this tax bill and whether, if he does fashion a tax bill that gives most benefits to the middle class which means maybe you have the fourth bracket to hit people at the top of the income scale will republicans a agree to a pn effect raises taxes on the wealthy? >> bret: you would have to look at that. if they get rid of the estate tax and corporate tax goes down to 20%, there probably are a lot of republicans would sign on to that. i want to play this sound bite about tom price. not to rhyme, he is on th

could this give bristol-myers a benefit over merck's in terms of convenience?sly the clinical studies haven't started yet. i think that's exactly the hope that several companies have in using our technology to be more competitive offering let me give you an example we already have jansin today studying one that needs to be given in a four to six hour intravenous injection and they're now studying a five-minute injection using our technology i certainly think that is the hope for the checkpoint inhibiters, too. bristol-mye bristol-myers squibb getting it to a shorter injection for patients. >> dr. torley, i get the need to be more friendly to the patient and everything, but does it make the treatment that much more effective? what i'm hearing, just purely from a business standpoint, is a competition thing going on here. if the drug that bristol-myers squibb or roche has to offer can be administered in a more patient-friendly way, maybe the doctors would go with them than they would another competitive treatment that has to go the old iv way is that what this is

other medicines to treat melanoma that was due to risks seen in a similar study by a rival drugmaker, merck. >>> astrazeneca says a phase three trial showing one of its drug improves lung function in patients with copd the company plans to submit an application to the fda for approval of the drug early next year up 1 % in london trade. >>> still to come on "worldwide exchange," president trump threatening to sanction countries that do business with north korea and no country has more at stake than china a live report from beijing coming up. >>> and mark your calendars, cnbc's delivering alpha a week away from today a big lineup of newsmakers including steve mnuchin, jamie dimon, ray dalio and many more big names. it's happening september 12th. for more details go to deliveringi deliveri delivering alpha.com [car tires screech] [bell rings] ♪ ♪ integrate any part of your business, and have your systems work as one. the ibm cloud. the cloud for enterprise. yours. and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders

everybody knows, of course, about the shredding of norms with the nomination of america garland and the -- merck garland and the aftermath of the unexpected and untimely death of justice and a lee a ya. and now -- scalia. and now his replacement by neil gorsuch. and with that, of course, the longstanding practice built into the rules for a long time that it would require a supermajority vote for a supreme court justice. that's one thing. but very longstanding norm in the senate over many, many, many decades is that when nominations are moved for district court and appeals court judges from particular states, that the senators from the state are consulted. and usually that consultation doesn't have to involve picking somebody they absolutely want. and, obviously, if you've got a democratic president, two republican senators or vice versa, you may not have that. but it usually involves here's a list of people, tell us who you like, who you wouldn't. and those senators, either one from the state, doesn't approve, then they have a blue slip, and if they don't turn it into the judiciary committee, th

and you know, at outset you could see, you know, could add merck owski to this, probably four votes. rand paul is usually unreliable. you don't know about him. but three. now with paul, four. and there are others that have said they don't like it. lamar alexander doesn't like this bill. idea you're going to have another public hanging of yourself strikes me as totally ludicrous. also let me add, republicans are being saved from a disaster. if this bill passed, they would pay a price for so long for doing so much harm to so many people. >> that was john mccain's point in his statement in opposition. >> there's a lot here in breaking news. bring in sean patrick maloney, a democrat from new york who has worked in the clinton white house. big news out of the congress. your view, is this obamacare fully saved? and what do you think happens now with susan collins' announcement? >> it's clear this bill shouldn't go anywhere, isn't going anywhere. lot of us would like to get around to doing our jobs, to work together to fix what is not working and keep what really is working and there are re

a journey that i hoped that i'd never have to face, and this great company merck has a website now that journey over the four years. and i'm very proud of what we have on the website. your cancer game plan.com. and i look forward to helping people. >> well, mike i know you're being modest like many cancer patients out there you dealt with multiple surgeries. you dealt with radiation. you dealt with chemotherapy. i have to say mike you look great now. how are you now? >> i'm wonderful right now. my last scans -- my next set of scans are coming up in a couple of weeks. the last scans indicated that in all areas of my body where i had cancer now i don't have it. >> that's such great news. we have the information up right now. actually the website for your cancer game plan.com. but before we talk a little baseball, mike, what in a nutshell can you tell people to make sure that they get checked out because like so many times people tend to find out that they have cancer too late. >> yeah, that's for sure. in my case, i'm a perfect example a guy who relationship with a dermatologist who i see

. >> you own pfizer and merck and these other things. >> i do. >> that's great. >> if i'm owning a stock with very high beta, that's equivalent to taking whatever -- make a number, quadruple what your position is in pfizer, okay boston because it's riskier on the downside and can move higher on the upside. the other thing i'm looking at is the strategy i run. it's only for credited investors, let's get that out there. i've got to wait and be optimistic to put money into that strategy, okay, and that's just a different kind of thing. >> what's your minimum, can i get in the >> 5 million. >> should i come back to you in a few years. >> the world you're in not necessarily everyone who is watching this showers, people out there are saying, well, gosh, if i've got an extra 25% cash, does it is make any sense to put the money in the market is what we're seeing is earnings are remaining strong that we don't see a recession immediately and interest rates are remaining low and if you have no options because you're not going to make money in bonds and you do earn money with the stock earnings and

while the agency didn't specify which medications are at risk, johnson & johnson, amgen, merck, eli lillyhem have plants on puerto rico. now, some don't have water or electricity there, of course, and getting anything off the island exports or humans is still a huge challenge. so we're watching the pharmaceutical story. that as an army of american companies steps up to provide humanitarian relief. fedex and amgen have contributed while starbucks, verizon, google, and lowe's have all pledged aid. but when you look at all of those logos, this are well-established gigantic companies. how about this? a startup social media app has turned into a digital lifeline this hurricane season. as hurricane harvey threatened to literally drowned people in houston, neighborhood news app next door found itself at the center of hurricane rescue efforts. the company's site allows -- i mean, the original intention was to allow neighbors to connect with each other and post about goings-on in the area like missing animals or break-ins. ceo is with us in a fox business exclusively, and we appreciate you joining

>> in some instances, the answer is yes so it's very widely known that the drug from merck in combinationen reported earlier this year. these latest versions of the trials don't show this yet but it's very important not to get too far ahead of ourselves in miy emyel risk than benefit so we have to slow down. now relapse setting so take the world where drugs are being developed for relapsed all, cll, myeloma there the benefit risk is easier to take on so we're dealing with this ratio of benefit risk early versus late in conjunction with the fda and all of our partners developing these medicines we're stopping to make sure that we understand what's happening. >> what you just described is the issue facing the fda all the time and that's how quickly to go along but you point out that drug development out of all the things that are going to help us whether it's with quality of life or living longer or holding down costs drug development is probably paramount so you want to be careful working around the edges. we have a new fda commissioner has it changed from the last administration and is it

of eurasiaa member group, e&p merck, will be with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: 1:00 p.m. a.m. in new york, at 8:00 p.m. in hong kong. welcome to "bloomberg markets." i am anna edwards. warm welcome back. top stories we are covering from bloomberg and around the world are nuclear options -- president sections ass wider pyongyang prepares a possible intercontinental missile launch after an atomic test this weekend. mario draghi speaks out thursday to weigh in on euro strength and deliver the ecb's inflation forecast. parliament.k. returns as david davis dismisses reports theresa may is set to approve any you payment of as much as 50 billion. to the show. a quick check on the markets. european markets -- geopolitics is the main thing. mark: it is, yes. at this function to give you a feeling of how the markets are faring. these are the stoxx, all down today, falling for the first day the investors turning to haven assets before notice he does before north korea tested that nuclear bomb. north korea is continuing to prepare for a possible intercontinental ballistic missile lau

refugees nowhere else to go and had not slept for days while we spoke to political analyst nickel or merck of which about the new can but the french university he believes the decision to look students out of the site was correct. the president of the university took the right decision this is not a normal situation you cannot just have migrants they don't know who these migrants are what their purpose there is how long they're going to stay there are sanitary issues there are also problems linked with migrants and crime in different cities in europe today and what we're seeing today is totally to the chaotic can you imagine migrants coming on the campus university because there are no more room in town to greet them and this is not the first time that we see these migrants slipping out in the streets have been tense sleeping in makeshift places because there's no facilities and france cannot cope with this wave of migration today europe it today isn't a typical sisk is a frantic situation whereby it is given the message to the rest of the world that europe has no borders that europe can g

word corp with c eight with spelter west virginia with round up you can replace the word dow with merck pfizer astra zeneca any other major company months santo and du pont as you pointed out it's the exact say it's like they're all reading out of the same playbook you know we make this horrible toxin our internal studies show that it's terrible and kills people and by the way killing ten thousand people around the globe annually but anyway we make this toxin it's killing people we know it we present this to the regulatory agencies we tell them look these studies can't really be trusted trust us though it's a safe chemical regulatory agency signs off on it the lawsuits begin the documents are uncovered it's the same story every time the corporate media then has to play catch up so like suddenly oh well we didn't know this was happening we didn't know what was going on yes you did independent outlets have been reporting on it for years even in the clase a quote poor pirate the e.p.a. itself has come out with negative studies on it corporate media ignored it just like they all have yeah c

steve: what's interesting is if the president is able via executive order buy merck across state linesrty. they said that would be in phase ii. the first part was what they were going to vote on this year and then phase ii but it turns out maybe the president with a pen and a phone can do phase ii by himself. pete: too many phases to keep track of for sure. a lot of it sounds like excuses from the swamp when it comes down to it. abby: great work out there. see you next hour. pete: thanks, appreciate it. steve: 19 minutes before the top of the hour. jillian starts with headlines. >> good morning to you guys and to you at home as well. police forced to shoot and kill a murder suspect when he opens fire from feet away. we do want to warn you the video is graphic. >> get your hands up. [gunfire] he fired. [groaning] >> i'm hit. i'm hit. on on body camera video showing the suspect falling to the ground in a shootout with sacramento police. officer also shot in bullet proof vest falling to the floor. he will be okay. that suspect was wanted for killing his ex-girlfriend and her daughter. mic

there is a lot of risk factored into the prices we see on the merck.oking at another two a weeks of sustained higher prices, higher than we have seen for this time of year going back to 2012. this is an active hurricane season. obviously not going to be hopeful for motorists digging deeper into their pockets earlier this season. biggest increase in prices really came from the said, becauseyou they are dependent on the colonial pipeline. do we hear more conversation about gasoline storage increases in the southeast, any way to change how they get their product? dan: it is difficult to say where they're going to get product from. from's a list coming vessels moving from elsewhere cargo, but the reality is the greater options we have, refineries that have spare capacity, a good number have gone into maintenance. where there would be spare capacity, you don't have the ability to suddenly turn on without barges coming in and places like europe or from around the world. that may take time. storage issues are a concern. states involved along the southeast hav