what is merck now? how would you define merck? what kind of a company is it?art as a pharmacy n 1668 here in germany, is now a global vibrant science and technology company that works in the fields of innovative pharma research, biotech, lab materials swerls display and electronic materials. everything we do is based on science and technology and research and innovation. guy: are you satisfied about where the company is now? as i said, in the last couple of years, you have shuffled the portfolio. you have offloaded businesses. p & g, etc. are you comfortable with what merck is now? >> i think as a c.e.o., i'm comfortable with where -- if i'm comfortable with where the company is now, that would be dangerous. we have three strong pillars, healthcare, life science and performance. we see a lot of synergy in terms of technology between the businesses. we're making great progress in digit alliesation. we see that our healthcare pipeline is full of interesting new projects. our life science business is booming. headwinds from our in china. the working very hard on

dow components merck and pfizer.ed quarter for most drug makers beating on the bottom line but merck beating adjustment key step this morning in determining who will eventually take control of british broadcaster sky. here's what's happening. british competitor -- the competition regulator has given to the government. that allows the government to say whether fox could proceed with its bid officials are concerned fox's proposal would give the company too much focus in the britain news media that has been overhanging all of this of course the parent company of this network making its own bid for sky. so we will watch this very carefully. >> going to be fun to watch. because comcast could go after everything disney is buying. they were very interested in that initially right? >> if the courts rule potentially for an -- in at&t's favor in at&t/time warner. >> that case has ended we should hear in a couple of weeks -- >> is this considered vertical not really if comcast went for all the things disney is buying, would tha

merck is being used on an experimental basis. as of monday the provided more than 8,000 doses of the vaccine with an additional 8,000 expected this week. there are logistic call challenges. it must be kept extremely cold at minus 83 cell kri us.ic the ter is hard to reach. it will take place there or in a large city to the north wheree one c has been confirmed. despite the challenges, public health expre optimistic. the availability a is important tool in fighting ebola and they're concerned with the quick response. i'm meg tirrell. >>> and coming up are the relentless volcanic eruptions putting amulti-million dollar dent in hawaii's tourism industry? >>> hawaii is one of the mostac popularion spots in the u.s., but the relentlessan vo eruptions may be starting to hurt one of that state's biggest industries, tourism. there are reports tonight that vacation bookings have fallen almost 50% since those eruptions began.i sema m has the details. >> reporter: explosive eruptions, plumes of ash and boulders shooting into the air. hawaii

what happened with merck and pfizer this morning? >> merck's results were as expected.cer franchise. they had an oncology drug that is first in class and is emerging as a leader, and driving the business. the pfizer story is different. their revenue was not quite what some analysts had been expecting, and i think what investors are looking for now is obviously with pfizer, they make big moves and have shown a lot of willingness to do big deals, and i think people have been looking at them to say ok, tax reform is done. a lot of money is coming in. >>t are you going to do now? -- is returning money to shareholders and a $2 billion buyback, but that was not enough to please investors. the stock is down after europe 's biggest bank reported cost that rose at a faster pace in revenue in the first quarter, and suggested that it would reinvest excess capital generated in the future. >> i think the buyback we were mentioning this morning is broadly speaking in line with the pattern of what we have done in the last couple of years. there may well be a couple in the community th

merck's cancer dru keytruda company's powe results helped to raise the four pass.rofit review knew also diointed over at rival, pfizer expects sales growth to ri at a faster pace. both pfizer and merck were down in deday's t >> you just heard bob mention thatpending unexpectedly fell in march. spendingas done 1.7%, way down by a dp in private sector spending. some contribute that decline to the difficult weither. ould bounce back in the spring. >>> sanctions activity slowed for another month in april. institute for supply management, manufacturers are facing a shortage of skilled workers and rising commodity prices. higher raw material cost are the latest inflation pressures building in our economy. >>> rising coststc are likely ng the attention as they began their two day on interest rate. money managers were surveyed financial their expectation about the bank, the a economy stock market. >>> the lat interest rates and inflation both rising why the outlook for th stock market has been reduced yet again. the federal reserve not expected to raise at the conclusion ofti its m tomorrow but

pfizer was down somewhat and merck is unchanged.th care, we welcome cynthia and dennisna gupte debusschere, still with us. let's start with big pharma first. 's results were as expected. they have an oncology drug which is first in class now and is the shares a leader. aren't moving. investors have this priced in and are waiting to see what else they will do or what it may do to diversify a bit because it is leverage to this one part of the business at the moment. but it is performing and merck is doing well. the pfizer story is different. revenue wasn't quite what analysts have been expecting. investors are looking for is that with pfizer, they have made big moves and shown willingness to do big deals and people have been looking at them to say, ok. tax reform is done. what do you don't now -- what do you do now? lisa: they are waiting for pfizer to make a big move. what are people speculating? bristol-myers has been in a little bit of trouble. they have designed clinical trials hasn't worked out as it did work out for merck . but

dow component, merck, out with earnings.om line earnings per share did beat expectations, although revenue looked a little light. today the story will be apple, set to report after the bell. investors watching for weaker iphone sales. shares are down 4% year-to-date. mike murphy will weigh on his coming up. another thing to watch for, how much money will apple spend on stock buyback, share repurchases and dividends. >>dividends.the dow closed 148 , all three major market gauges notching narrow gains for the month of april. in europe, we have one market that's open, that's england, kudos to them for working today, gaining half of 1%. ththe markets in asia, the nikki in japan gained 2/10 of a percent. spurring economic growth, treasury secretary steve mnuchin shrugging off concerns of a slowdown during a panel with maria yesterday at the milliken conference in los angeles. >> i don't buy that at all. we see very strong economic growth for the next several years and in regards to the tax plan paying for itself, if we get the ec

what happened with merck and pfizer? cancer franchise, an oncology drug that's first in class now, emerging as the leader. pfizer is a little different. their revenue wasn't quite what analysts had been expecting, and i think what investors are looking for now is obviously -- they are making big moves, they have shown willingness to do big deals, and people have been looking at them to say, tax reform is done, a lot of money is coming in, what are you doing next? ♪ >> hsbc is returning money to shareholders in a $2 billion buyback, but it wasn't enough to please investors. the stock is down after europe's biggest bank reported costs that rose at a faster pace in revenue in first quarter and suggested it would reinvest capital generated in the future. >> i think the buyback we are mentioning this morning is, probably speaking, in line with the pattern of what we have done the last couple years. from our capital management perspective, i think what the numbers for the first quarter bears out is the growth environment we ar

i love merck. >> but, i was like -- >> jimmy: 'cause merck is like, just -- >> how did she get next tothinking -- >> and i'm, like, i'll be discussing pharmaceuticals. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: wow, that's interesting. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: well, i guess -- i mean, that's the fun of those things. >> but acutally, he's really awesome and fun. >> jimmy: yeah. that's the thing about those things. you sit next to people. but also, like, everyone is dressed up to the nines. >> yes. to the nines. >> jimmy: you guys looked gorgeous. and i gotta say, hoda -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: very interesting -- purse call on your -- on your behalf. and you've done this before. i don't know why you -- dude, you are unbelievable. here's hoda with a ziploc bag for a purse. [ laughter and applause ] >> wait. i don't -- thank you! [ cheers and applause ] thank you. >> jimmy: no, they're not -- they're not clapping -- they're not clapping with you. they're like, this is insane. >> what do you mean? >> jimmy: why -- >> wait. >> jimmy: why do you just -- >> wait, do you guys think a a ziploc bag for a purse is a a g

under the clear skies, there could be missed and merck. a chilly morning and could be at touch of frost. sunday, another day of the east—west split. best of the sunshine towards the west. cloudier in the east but unimproved day to parts of the south—east of england and up towards the midlands. more sunshine than saturday. the rain pushes northwards and it will be confined to the far pa rt and it will be confined to the far part of england. a decent day on signed —— sunday. in the wind, it could feel pleasant enough. always that bit cooler around the north—east coast of england. looking forward into sunday night and into the working week, low pressure coming in from france but high pressure trying to move its way in. although there could be cloud and one or two although there could be cloud and one oi’ two showers although there could be cloud and one or two showers for east anglia and the south—east, many places having a dry and fine day on monday. skies will cloud overfor having a dry and fine day on monday. skies will cloud over for the

grave danger of being relegated hamburg are second last and buspar are just two points ahead of how merck have struggled all season and looks certain to be relegated but they have turned things around in recent weeks and are feeling confident they can avoid the drop. lots to cheer about hamburg at the moment but long faces involved hamburg on a high vol spur going to wrote a very different mood among the two sets of fans. after three wins in the last four matches hamburger confidence had a very game at frankfurt today. most important things to show the same mentality as we've done in the last few games by mentality i mean the absolute desire and belief that we can win the game. that desire and belief has given her real hope of surviving the drop. coach christian tit's has made a lot of good decisions since taking over in march he brought lewis holtby back into the fold turning an outcast into a key player holtby a skulled five goals in his last six games. we're playing football for the first time in four years we keep possession of the bowl we have the belief to keep the balls we press de

united health, chevron and merck were among the best performing blue chips y 3m, p & g and ibm were the worst performers >>> with april in the books, let's find out what's in store for your money forthe month of may. joining us now is ian steeley. rates have been a huge part of the discussion, yet we have not seen ten-year yields budge for the better part of a week. how important is that rate picture given the fact that we have a fed meeting this week >> i think it will be hugely important over the next few months we have a fed meeting. the likelihood is they'll have to acknowledge that inflation is picking up core cpi is above target core cpe hovering around about the target level it looks sustainable that could probably push rates higher over the summer months. whether that has a knock on impact to other markets has more to do with the speed of the move rather than if we can get a gradual rise higher. >> let's talk about the fed meeting to come this week. how much mow cuss in tfocus in e markets and the fed is inflation? >> it's the big thing. we don't have a press conference we don't

but where we have the dry weather through the night, we're also going to see lots of missed and merckof northern ireland and england. up into scotland as well, a warm and muggy night, tempered is no lower than 11 and 15 degrees, perhaps uncomfortable for sleeping if you're going to head to bed. understands likely to cause further trouble issues during tomorrow, but was leading and the risk of the some disruption will stop your bbc local radio station will keep you up—to—date but a slightly —— likely different area of the western and northern france the country to seeing vicious bindery downpours we re seeing vicious bindery downpours were as comes the southeast, far fewer showers that we have had today, gestalt of sunshine but of course southwest of england particularly well, and the west midlands and northwest england and northern ireland and scotland, you can see from our high—resolution weather model, a scattering of picket and the showers and thunderstorms. there will be spells ofa thunderstorms. there will be spells of a warm sunshine as well and the temperatures again well up in

. >> merck, the german merck, german mark said the probability will probably fall as much as 15% thishe german company's ailing liquid crystal business. do things get worse from here? is this the low point? >> not yet. we have announced that we have have lost some market shares in asia and that this process is actually continuing until end of 2018. we expect actually in terms of ebitda pree in 2019. 2019 will be a tough year. >> fiscal sales and fourth-quarter earnings estimates fallen short of expectations. shares flipping this morning. they touched their highest price in more than 17 years last week. >> we had increasing topline revenue. we had record eps, capital returns to shareholders, so it was a really solid quarter from an overall perspective. the fact that our security business grew 11%, our application business grew 19%, that is the second big piece here that gives us confidence. and the third is the business model transition we laid out. our deferred revenue from software and subscriptions it grew from 29%. our product revenue from current offers was up over 30% year-over-y

showers to begin the day on saturday across the southwest, generally speaking, it's the cloud and merck pretty hot, showers and thunderstorms will be pushing southwest and in towards wales, temperatures reaching towards, it'll be quite cool along the coast. onto sunday, that thundery low continues to move northwards towards the southern half of the uk. going on across the north, most of northern ireland will be dry and sunny. continue into saturday night, it will also become more widespread during sunday, across parts of england wales and president northern ireland later on. another humid day, top temperatures around 27 or maybe 28 degrees, but always cooler along the coast. the bank holiday monday stays warm and humid, thundery plume continues to move northwards, like across and through parts of the uk. perhaps across southern scotland and northern england, is down to the day, and clouds will break up so we'll have sunny spells temperatures will shoot up and perhaps more thundery showers anywhere. now ended tuesday, we will see another thundery plume, and give us an heavy rain to pass

sarat, bristol, merck, cell gene >> take out alumna, bought that's a completely different company. but you had a couple things going on firstly, the pipelines have not been as robust as people expected secondly, this overhang from the white house. we're waiting to find out exactly what they're doing a lot of investors won't step in until you really find out what drug prices are going to happen. at these valuations, doc, you know, this is what i think we need to get into because these are the value plays. >> an awful lot of them. >> you're in some of them, bristol and merck. >> bristol, yesterday, took a shot in some azn, and agn as well there are some pockets of real value created whenever the president addresses them and people are waiting to see whether or not he really hits them with a stick or instead holds out a carrot after threatening them with a stick. >> you look at -- pardon me, jim, i'm sorry you look at some of the losses year to date >> that's where i was going. >> j & j down 9.5% year to date. fooiszer, 2.5% santa fe, bristol myers, allergon >> these have been value t

for this evening and overnight clearer skies across central and south—east england, some missed and merck cloud for northern ireland and scotland, lows overnight typically between nine and 14 celsius, they will build our to egg cloud, some of that train getting into north west of england and north—westwards lead in the day, further south varane fizzles out but head of it we could catch sharp showers to the afternoon. still very warm in south—east england and east anglia, further west fresher, that's a theme to the middle of the week, as these fronts the east would notice how the orange and yellow colours are with blue colours, feeling fresh of all of us. on wednesday another fun from the west, and briggs of rain for northern ireland, north—west england and wales and south—west england later in the day, just about dry, maybe seeing 21 celsius across south—east england but look further west for fresher conditions and as that front then sweeps eastwards wednesday evening and into thursday all of us will be in the fresher air. that front may keep some cloud and a spot of rain across eastern c

there's too much reliance on this one cancer drug, and i think merck is actually taking a little more of the momentum in that cancer drug at this point so i just, you know, i took my bristol money and put it into zimmer >> let's move on a man well known to cnbc viewers, anthony scaramucci will return to skybridge as co-managing partner. this comes as china announced it will not acquire the firm. thenny joins ussoon the phone. it's been a while. >> how are you >> welcome back to cnbc, anthony. >> you look good in the judge's chair, melissa i'm watching you >> it's a nice chair that the judge has got. let's get to what took the deal down what did cfius say was there a path to getting the deal done? >> i think there could have been a path to getting the deal done. in fairness to hna, they responded to 15 months of questions. i would say probably tens of thousands of pages of information, and so i think there could have been a path to get it done. we sort of can't really comment on the cfius process, but one of the things they do is something called mitigation, where they allow the partie

be easier to answer that question we don't really know he's backed out of the iran deal mccloughan merck left tried to keep him at the table. that option is now off the table and there's hardly a scenario where trump would become convinced to be brought back to it. at the same time it's difficult for europe to maintain the iran deal given that the incentives the economic incentives they're trying to give are hampered by u.s. intervention in the through sanctions and what happens more if there is no u.s. north korea summit or let's say the summit takes place and it's a failure will it strengthen europe's hand at all. i wouldn't see a direct relationship because you know trump has been saying there is pump a zero has been telling the iranians look at our commitment to north korea if you want to see the future absolutely and i think for trump it was a very important little disappoint and it must be a big disappointment for him that this seems to crumble at the moment i think that's why he's also willing to give him certain points and not fully denuclearize north korea i think that he saw th

in the immunotherapy spaces are merck and bristol-myers. they had some data in combinatio with bristol-myers drug opdivo. you saw the stock go down quite a bit. in terms of targeteds, therap emerging biotechs there. they'reorking on the same target and their stocks went in opposite directions because the loxo data looked pretty good in the data we got to see. >> effectiveness is important,o buts cost, especially when you have a combination of multiple drugs in these treatments. what's the issue there now? >> yeah. so at this conference there's beenew side effect that doctors have been talking about for the last few years that they're calling financial toxicity because the drugs can be so expensive. the big immunotherapy drugs can be more than $100,000 a year s when you start thinking about combining those with other new treatments, are we getting to th multiple hundred thousands of dollars a year. is is theey thing people are worried about and talking about. >> meg, i know youonad a day covering the conference and we appreciate you staying

more cloud around generally across eastern areas, some mist and merck also, but the rain at least acrossed that was in northern isles. it was better afternoon. much of england and wales finance tribe and sunny spells and sunshine per northern ireland. temperatures reaching highs of around 16—18dc. feeling pleasant in the strong may sunshine. this evening the rain becomes confined to what shetland, and it lingers for a bit there. this weather front returning eastern coastal areas by the end of the night, bringing the odd shower and a bit of cloud for the western side of northern ireland, but for most it will be a clear night and drive. chile has well. into monday, high pressure building and managing with this area of high pressure across scandinavia, keeping those weather systems at bay. looking fine and dry for most of buzz on monday, bad weather front but continue to bring eight a few showers to east anglia and the south—east, but as it moves westwards, it will begin to fizzle out and become no more than a band of cloud. some cloud pushing into the north west of scotland, into western p

emissions cheating scandal came to light concerns about diesel emissions are skyrocketed now how merck has become the first german city to ban the older diesel vehicles from two highly polluted roads the city hopes the ban will help ease get a handle on soaring levels of nitric oxide found in diesel at first police will simply inform drive us about the new measures after an initial transition period it will be fines twenty five euros for cars and seventy five euros diesel trucks. and adam allow and my colleague is standing by for us on the roads out of one of those two roads with diesel cars starting today so now is this just a local story or could this be the beginning of what could lead to a broader ban across germany perhaps even europe. well if this is the start of something big then it's quite a small start indeed i'm actually standing here on the part of the road that's supposed to make up the band zone so i'm at the beginning and it stretches behind me for about half a kilometer and all the other road that is bound is also only a partial bank it's a bit longer but together these

the sunshine, although for some north—eastern coastal parts of scotland, there will be some mist, merckn the sunshine, hires around 22 or 23 degrees. during friday night, we will see these showers and storms start to drift further west, they will start to drizzle as they go. a lot of cloud left behind. some rather misty and murky conditions to take us into saturday. temperatures around 12 to 14 degrees. saturday starts off with a lot of cloud, that should break up to some sunshine, particularly across the northern half of the british isles. across the south, the increasing chance that we will see some really vicious thunderstorms breaking up. they will be quite hit and miss. the best of the sunshine, those temperatures creeping up 21 to 2425 degrees because we are going to be importing this very warm air from the new continent. what we are also going to be bringing up from the southis going to be bringing up from the south is clusters of heavy, thundery downpours. you can see the way these frontal systems will continue to drift in. looks likely that on sunday, we could see is particular

drug that kills off the virus so erratic and sickness right so let me ask you this about the soul merck in medicine. antibiotics. i hear that they're running out of antibiotics they need new antibiotics and you've got the superbug and all these kinds of things are now resistant to antibiotics are what you're doing does it address that yes phage therapy is actually a solution to this problem and i should giving a presentation. next sunday about this problem and therapy and how it could potentially help solve this problem ok and you're focusing in on ai is that correct what what is drawn you to artificial intelligence i got first i wasn't really interested in artificial intelligence have i like it just what another one of those topics but i say as i saw more and more of it come around me i realize it's actually really cool so i delved deep into it and i found this really cool kind of subtopic of artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning delivered a presentation about that a couple weeks ago and basically what it is is learning on its own so it's basically a machine. reenact a

as for wednesday, again, some low cloud, mist and merck around north—eastern coasts of england and easterne, temperature starting to rise throughout wednesday, turning warm across the south and south—east, temperatures potentially up to 2a, 20 five celsius, 19 degrees in edinburgh but around the coasts of aberdeenshire and the far north—east of england it will be that little bit chilly with temperatures in the low to mid teens. hello, it's 9 o'clock, i'm in for victoria, welcome to the programme "they can kill our sons but they can't kill our spirit." the mum of a man who died in the manchester bombing and the mum of a british teenager who died fighting for is in syria tell us, in an exclusive interview, how they've put aside their differences to become friends. we lost our sons to the same monster, it doesn't matter in which faith, it's the same organisation, same ideals, that both our sons died for. you can watch that full, exclusive, interview at 9.15. it's nearly a year since 71 people died in the fire at grenfell tower in west london. today, an inquiry opens into what happened — it'll

a lot of low cloud and missed and merck around the coast but sunny spells inland and again feeling warm southern areas in the sunshine, temperatures of 22 or 2a. this weekend will stay pretty warm and humid, some sunshine around but also the risk of further thundery downpours pretty much anywhere by the end of the week. two policewomen and a passer—by are shot dead by a gunman in belgium in what's being treated as a terrorist attack. the gunman attacked the two police women with a knife before taking their guns and shooting them dead. police sources say the gunman who was shot dead had been released from prison yesterday. we'll bring you the latest from the scene. also this lunchtime... hospital staff who treated the poisoned russians sergei and yulia skripal say they didn't expect the pair to survive. when we first were aware this was a nerve agent, we were expecting them not to survive. we would try all our therapies, we would ensure the best clinical care, but all the evidence was there that they would not survive. i have two gentlemen in my cafe, they're refusing to make

merck, it did get some help from sales of cancer drug but, again, dead flat stock right there.izer, lower sales of breast cancer drug and arthritis drug. down at 35. apple reports after the closing bell this afternoon, premarket it's up about, what, 68 cents. liz, i want to know because there's going to be a call after the report comes out, i want to know what apple will do with all of that money? >> that's exactly right, on average $50 billion it's been spending on those items, will it increase to 60 billion, what will it say declining market share in both china and india, we are watching for tim cook what he's going to say. lowest expectations on apple right house -- now because they are losing. stuart: $60 billion here. liz: they could buy ireland or finland. ashley: together. liz: it's 300 billion in the capital reallocation program. they boost to 350. stuart: people asked me what does that mean, they have the equivalent of money in their checking account that could write a check for $30 billion and it won't bounce. liz: buying back that amount in stock. stuart: that's the

i would go to key truda and merck. doesn't have the star power, but it does have the fire power.about matt in minnesota. >> caller: a minnesota booyah to you. my stock is kirkland lake gold do i buy more or keep holding? >> i would actually take a little off the table i don't see gold going anywhere. and i think about what warren buffett was saying today, if you have a profit in gold, i don't see anything wrong in taking it. paul in new jersey. >> caller: big booyah to you my stock is epr. do you still recommend buying that >> yeah, we see that stock sneaking back. we decided you know what, we think it was overly punished and looks like it could hold in here and i think it is overdone to the down side and making a bottom fred in ohio. >> caller: booyah. mr. cramer how are you doing today? talking about iron mountain. >> another one of these that was oversold all of these situations that have been clobbered. they are all done going down, well not all of them and that, ladies and gentleman, concludes the "lightning round"" >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade

>> right now does not have what we are looking for in terms of the cancer franchise it is going to merck to tell you, down here with a 3% yield it gets attractive, but with the interest rates going higher, i have to take a pass for the moment erin in virginia. >> caller: hey, cramer, thanks for taking my call i want to know my thoughts on quad graphics. >> i am taking a pass on that. jack in connecticut. >> caller: hey, thanks for taking my call i own expector energy, and i want to add in my position. >> if it were oil transit, i would be two thumbs up it has a 9% yield. it is worry some for me. right now, i am taking a pass. brian in texas >> jim, how are you today? >> i am good how about you? >> caller: sports is certainly alive in philadelphia, isn't it? >> yeah. >> caller: okay, jim, my stock has god awful equity ratings i am originally from brooklyn and i love new york. my stock is consolidated edison. >> mr. ed is a buy, buy, buy i am giving this man a twofer. throwing in american electric power. by the half if it goes down again. this stock is a high quality utility. going to osta

the dangers of vaccines the head of merck will be down in his boss's office the next morning screamingat him threatening to pull billion dollars worth of advertising so you're never going to get an honest discussion about the pharmaceutical industry on the mainstream media because they're beholden to them for advertising dollars so they created this you know this this this model of advertising for t.v. but they forgot that it puts the advertisers in a in a position of power to control what the stories will be in a lot of people in you know in the united states just think if it's not if they don't see it on the news and it didn't happen or if the news you know we're in a headline society where you read the headline that's about it we all have like you know media a.d.d. so to dig into the story and to get into the get into the bottom of it you have to have the time to do it like you said there's a lot of people that just aren't aren't freed up in their day to actually research this and so so i did for them the way. and where do you see this going what is the what is the future of the pla

merck, the german mark has said the probability will probably fall as much as 15% this year.company's interlink liquid crystal -- business.quid crystal is this the low point? >> not yet. we have anounced that loss to some market shares in asia and that this process is actually continuing until end of 2018. with our most important steering kids in 2019. kit and 2019.ng fiscal sales and fourth-quarter earnings estimates falling short. shares flipping this morning. momentum increasing and our top line revenue, we had record capital returns to our shareholders, so overall, it was a really solid quarter. the fact that our security business grew 11%, our obligation business grew 19%, that is the second big piece here that gives us confidence. the third, the business model. 29%.ew from overring offers was up year-over-year. guiding for continued momentum on the top line as well as record earnings per share. we are pleased with the quarter. activistr victory for -- xerox has called off a $6 billion takeover by japan's fuji film. great news for these guys. >> it is. iconhaven't settle

. >> i prefer merck to pfizer. just keep reinvesting the dividends, the best way to make a lot of money bob in california. >> caller: hey, cramer, how you doing. wondering about cisco, you see a merger coming up >> no merger just great earnings and i think chuck robbins is doing a remarkable job the stock is a buy i love the fact that they bought amy chang's company. earning season has been hit or miss if you think the market overreacted to the down side on cat, boeing and united technologies, the charts according to bob lang says it can go higher. much more ahead. room for optimism when it comes to the stock of general electric don't make a move before you hear my take and tonight the "lightning round. stick with cramer. let's get started. show of hands. who wants customizable options chains? ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action? how about some of the lowest options fees? are you raising your hand? good then it's time for power e*trade the platform, price and service that gives you the edge y

merck is lagging boeing is on pace for its best day since april 25 and csx, union 26 on the mark. >>>s happening. president obama and michelle obama have signed a multiyear agreement to produce films and series for netflix no word on how much the deal is worth. starbucks says its restrooms will now be open for all visitors whether or not they make a purchase. the policy applies to its more than 8,000 u.s. cafes. and the tesla model 3 will not get a recommendation from consumer reports the group saying issues with braking controls and ride quality hurt the overall score >>> and we begin with the temporary trade truce between the u.s. and china in that dispute, not war will it last and what happens now? kayla tausche live in d.c. with more >> reporter: the next order of business is for the commerce secretary wilbur ross to go to china to hammer out the specifics for the u.s. agricultural and commodity exports that china is expected to buy as part of the u.s. side of this deal i'm told that trip will happen in the next two week and the timing is not insignificant. the u.s. wants to keep

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these are the laws passed by a merck rat so we open borders.f we don't have borders, you don't have a country. (ch(baby crying)eat) ♪ fly me to the moon ♪ and let me play-- (jet engine white noise) (airline "ding") (bell mnemonic) >> the department of homeland security seeking more troops to boost security on our southern border. the additional manpower with aid hundreds already there as part of president trump's order mission. jonathan hunt joins us live from our los angeles bureau to tell us more about this one. >> president trump suggested up to 4,000 national guard troops. border states promised 2,000. the pentagon tells us, currently about 1600 of those are deployed with another 250 in orientation here in california, likely to begin their work in earnest in the next few days. the department of homeland security wants to get the closer number number of 4,000 request. national guard with helicopters and other equipment is now being considered by defense secretary -- given that he's approved a 4,000 total, it seems like this request of 700 wi

coming up on good morning merck. >> breaking news out of hawaii, the volcanos and earthquakes hit beinghat state forcing several hundred people to evacuate their homes. marci gonzalez right there on the big eye blaland island with. and also two new reports involving the president, his personal lawyer and the payment to the porn star. plus what the president said at the nra convention and hugh the students from park land are reacting. and we also have new information on the royal wedding, the surprising letter harry received from meghan's relative just weeks before the big day. that is all coming up on gma. >>> if you're making plans, this is the first weekend that you can see an iconic broadway show in san francisco. plus if you are a fan of comfort food, we have something that you will love in the north bay. >> and we're taking you behind the scenes of the color purple with one of the stars. ♪ ♪ song i never heard, i guess that means that you are just too beautiful for time ♪ >> her favorite song in the iconic show, which she describes as a love story between two sisters. the actress t

. >> probably with the intentions of doing some more >> i like merck, i think they are a good drug and i would own it >> that does it for us here. going to hand it off to "power lunch. >> welcome everybody you are looking live or soon will be, yes, you will -- it is a black screen right now trust me that's the facebook developer's conference in san jose yes, it is, ladies and gentlemen. mark zuckerberg is ability out k the stage to explain his move of pulling back access data following cambridge analytica data >> there it is st >> there we go a lot of dark colors and things like screens >> he's going to talk at this developer conference everybody we are going to have full coverage and it is going to come alive for you. look at that >> airplanes >> we'll keep an eyeon that officially welcome everyone to "power lunch," sara eisen here and michelle caruso-cabrera and melissa lee will be back in a moment >> we are going to get to mark zuckerberg's keynote speech in a moment first a check on trading investors are hitting the sales button as we kickoff the new trading month. dow is down trip

ce celgene down then real pain in merck as well assize iffer >> bristol-myers -- as well as pfizer what's going on? >> they missed the revenue number by 30%. that's nothing -- at a certain point maybe it's relevant. it's not relevant now. so what's the right valuation? if they're basically premier drug is going to have a 30% revenue miss which is what we're saying now we have to re-evaluate. is it more of the same at a certain point valuations will matter. >> on 66 gilead is two-year lows it's ridiculously cheap. it's got $40 billion in cash this is a company -- but, again, hiv, hvb, hcv were all down, year over year you're down 25% on anti-viral drugs and people are wondering about what's next. so it's strategy and where there could be capital giveback. but the valuation, it's not a case where this is meaningless, this is an inexpensive company that is run well and do you want this tome go out and make a bad acquisition, it's interesting the cancer acquisition is not only fizzled out >> that was sort of hailed as -- finally we're seeing signs of mna and then we had pfizer on its conferen

i was at merck. i met a guy spent 17 years developing a drug. his child was in utero when he started and the kid was graduating high school, going to college by the time they made it to the shelf. they take on a lot of risk, don't they deserve price for that risk when it saves lives? >> absolutely. what constitutes a good price? as a human being i want to see the r&d happen, and new curse come to market. it is transformational that new therapies bring but at same time it has to be balanced. there are only some dollars in the bucket. there are real people out there paying prices so unaffordable when they can't pay the ticket price. not doing so good. liz: pair increased competition, transparency and fda moving faster, we may see some action. robin, michael, good to have you on this. we have to bring you back. he said months. might take a lot longer. we'll be on it and watching it thank you so much. >> thanks. liz: take a quick look at the markets, dow jones industrials off the highs of the session. we're up about 73. 24,717. there is gadd muse fo

dow up 306 led by exxon, chevron, jpmorgan and merck. how about the russell? the russell 2000, another record all-time high. 15th record close for 2018 for the small cap. up about 8% this year. speaking of the banks, jpmorgan, goldman sachs, look how the banks managed to close higher as the 10-year treasury yield moved higher, but is below the crucial 3% mark. and record all-time highs for microsoft and netflix and amazon had a record close as it gained today. liz: the wife of an illegal immigrant telling individuals in the media she does support the trump administration's decision to deport her husband. coming up, we've got the sound. >>> also tonight, more roseanne barr fallout. president trump now calling out disney ceo bob iger for apologizing to former obama official valerie jarrett but not picking up the phone to call him about abc's slice against the president. we've got details on that. >>> terror attack in belgium leaving two police officers and a civilian dead. we're bringing in kayleigh mcenany on what we have yet to still learn about this, coming u

i remember at the time of charlottesville, the ceo of merck, a friend of mine, stood up, an african-americanood up and withdrew from the president's advisory council on manufacturing in protest. so i think the president needs to stand up and try to unite the american people and not play to these divisions. >> charlie dent, april ryan, good discussion. thanks to both of you for joining us. >>> that's other important news, including a stunning twist. a russian journalist faking, yes, faking his own death as part of a sting operation to catch suspected assassins. it's an incredible story. we'll share it with you. that's coming up. ... another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. with the fastest retinol formula available. it's clinically proven to work on fine lines and wrinkles. one week? that definitely works! rapid wrinkle repair®. and for dark spots, rapid tone repair. neutrogena®. see what's possible. i think, keep going, and make a difference. at some point, we are going to be able to beat als. because life is am

in an experiment sponsosored bya subsidiary of merck, work is injected and incised aside in a dogs.iberty's clients include bayer, usda, michigan state university in thehe universities of pittsburgh, florida, and louisville. amy: a video produced by peta -- people for the ethical treatment of animals. your final comment on this before we go to break? >> i think we need to have a reckoning with ourselves about what it is that we believe we are willing to permit when it comes to the treatment of living beings with the capacity to feel pain and suffering. there's a wide range of debate about whether you should be the vegetarian or is morally permissible to eat meat, but you can set that debate as i for these purposes and i think we should all agree the kind of torture that is being imposed on corporate and systemic on all kinds of animals in the u.s. is morally unconscionable and shameful and will have the responsibility to put a stop to it. amy: glenn greenwald, we're going to go to break and then come back to to talk about the mueller investigation to what is happening with julian as

out of the iran deal and brought back three captive merck's from north korea. monday, the u.s. will open its embassy in jerusalem. a big week any way you look at it. >> reporter: that's right, chris. this morning president trump is waking up with a little bit of a high after the three americans were released from north korea detention and also ahead of the expected meeting with kim jong-un in singapore. he celebrated with a raucous campaign rally in unin last night. but here back at the white house, there are more staff troubles and stories of in fighting coming out of this building. yet again threatening to overshadow the president's foreign policy achievements. white house aide kelly sadler under fire for an insensitive comment she made about senator john mccain. a white house official saying she told staffers to dismiss his nomination of gina haspel because he's dying anyway. the war hero has been battling brain cancer for nearly a year. mccain's wife responded on twitter. may i remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren. john mccain has a lot of frie