when i was on the pfizer court that is all we did. ton we need the adversary look at and a proven study and argue with the court about what is generally referred to as a programmatic work of the pfizer court, we can get into the weeds of what the fisa court does here, but then i really would be taking an hour. i think it started time for me to shut up. but suffice it to say that there are a few areas in which the iszer -- in which the fisa doing work in which i ought to believe -- in which i believe there ought to be an advocate. attorneys selected by the -- which i call pclob, if they would set up the panel, then the pfizer court would reach out to them. i want to make one point that the senator didn't make. there is a provision in the -- in the in the fisa fisa law. it is very limited and in my view they never have done it. i would require that the pfizer court sits in panels of three judges whenever they are dealing issues or newtic legal issues that have to be sorted out. it has been said that the pfizer court isthat the fisa noth

pfizer shares are trading again.r saying it plans to appeal a court decision on the reissue of the celebrex patent. pfizer shares are falling. we will have more coming up in just a moment. ♪ >> welcome back. the minimum wage is the main topic in our latest bloomberg national poll. my colleague is in washington with the results. where do americans stand on this issue? >> good afternoon. wind comes to the president's proposal of increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, 69% of americans say they support it. 45% ofen includes republicans. as impressive as those numbers might be, congressional republicans have found some pretty persuasive arguments. one of which is a congressional budget office finding that says, yes, raising the minimum wage to a loss of 500,000 jobs. when asked about the trade-off, 57% of those polled called it unacceptable. 69%entiment shared by that in favor of the increase. half of those respondents then move into the opposing camp. not the most encouraging numbers for a president. the

. >> pfizer halted. i want to jump in with dave. sit tight. pfizer halted for news pending.n't know what it is. that's why they call it news pending. we will bring it to you. down 13 cents. to follow up on mandy's excellent question, given the potential risk and the product makeup, is there any reason to buy the stock? are they going to sell enough cr cruzes to make up for the loss? >> absolutely. it's on our best ideas list. >> still on your best ideas list? >> yes. obviously that could change if the recall risk were to get severe, really depends on that criminal probe. you just don't know. but gm today is making much better vehicles than these cobalts and saturn and pontiac don't even exist anymore. look at the j.d. power rankings and consumer reports ranking on the new impala. these are actually small cars that detroit makes now. they are cars people want to buy rather than buy just because they're cheap. >> thank you very much for your comments on gm. let's move on to tesla. the story we broke right here on "street signs" yesterday. that is new jersey banning direct sale

melissa: breaking news on pfizer, the stock is still halted.s is all related to celebrate the and the court granted a summary judgment in validating reissuing of the pant. nicole petallides standing by -- nicole: you can see it, it is not real and yet. this is all about some of rex reed issued patent regarding that adviser says we have to appeal a court decision. disagrees with a ruling, pursue all available remedies. right now we have not gotten any indication whether it opens to the downside. initially this doesn't sound like good news for pfizer. it is down 1/2% before it was halted. melissa: they will appeal the court decision regarding the celebrate 3 issued patent. you can see the stock, we will keep a close eye on that. gold reaching its highest level, not all the metals are looking shiny. let's go to this cme with more. what are you seeing? >> right now i am seeing gold popping, high of the day. i don't buy this rally. overriding themes are driving gold prices to china and ukraine but the over hang on the gold price seems to the normali

max gets even log in with pfizer for a minute. and this forty two aircraft would fold one four billion dollars and is a great thing that india has taken the fuzz customer into my mouth through the floor to other customers and a loft with a seventy seven when the knights orders in the future the aviation scene dominated by the low cost that is struggling to be either. most of the credit that is still operating on dos it's not that of dictation steam by indian and i've more customized i don't think she'll deal with as many a shia and sing up on and i love getting ready to enter the union stocks. in a bid to tap into this team's bid for the one disease in southern il plus kenyans have denounced the sofa summit seeing that this comes up to seventy five percent on the spat. the sawdust on the list of countries the gene that citizens of boston a us study has shown the findings of raising concerns of avoiding the religious intolerance in

liz: a lot of you might own pfizer.t is a widely held name, lost an important court decision, one you probably heard of. celebrates, an inhibitor for rheumatoid arthritis. pfizer is down 3/4% say and we are going to fight this, we are going to appeal it but see what the traders have to say about a broader markets. we have herbal life, new skin was also halted but that is doing fine. let's bring in our traders and nicole petallides at stock exchange. you are a number is diane tend to look at numbers and shots but give us the number one chart you see today that is jumping out at you that should matter to our investors viewers. >> treasury yield pulling back, something that has been in an uptrend the last couple weeks which is sort of interesting. growth concerns, the market has been stagnant, side with the last five days but if anything the markets are oblivious to what has been happening in the rest of the world. europe is down to one month lows, emerging markets, copper dropping to new four year lows but u.s. markets co

your first pick tonight is pfizer. why? >> well, i think it's a good emblem of one of our larger overweights which is health care. in general, actually, we are overweight those parts of the economy that are cyclical, that will benefit from a good economy, things like energy, things like financials are a hedge against that frankly is health care. we think it is the cheapest offensive sector out there and particularly we like pharmaceuticals and specifically we like pfizer. >> and you also you mentioned just financials and bank of america is another one of your recommendations. tell us what's the appeal with bac. >> like a lot of things we're looking at this year, we're looking at valuations. we think it's going to be a good year for banks in general. and we think it will be a better year in terms of stock price for those banks that are cheaper than average going into the year. we think bank of america is cheaper. we think it's going to be a good year for banks in general. >> energy has been a little bit or orphaned hasn't it

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. >> merck and pfizer, two top farmer picks? >> perhaps slightly more value than pfizer but i like them both. >> great to have you own. make sense of what we've seen in the markets over the last week or so. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> pete? >> i think you look at celgene in value and growth and the name that oftentimes people forget about is amgen. they have value and growth and a 2% yield on top of it. the big pharma names are going to be consistent. >> you know, i get the whole biotech thing but as a retail investor i would be cautious. i would stick to amgen, merck, and pfizer. >> coming up, walt disney making a major digital deal to draw more teens into the entertainment empire but what will it mean for the bottom line? >>> as tiffany lost its luster? a trader says it's a diamond in the rough. very classy is on deck. and we'll be right back. >>> tim. four trades and four stocks. first up is disney buyer maker studios for $500 million. it's the largest disney distributors. pete? >> depending on performance this would be

in terms of the individual stocks that we are watching today, we are taking a look at pfizer.e trading down in today's session. pfizer yesterday said it would be trying to dispute a lawsuit against it having to do with the celebrex drug. shares are falling today. we will be on the markets again

in terms of the individual stocks that we are watching taking a look at pfizer.ading down in today's session. pfizer yesterday said it would be trying to dispute a lawsuit against it having to do with the celebrex drug. shares are falling today. we will be on the markets again in 30 minutes. bloomberg west is coming up next. ♪ live from pier three in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west." an explosive story about the massive target data breach, bloomberg businessweek has learned the target systems quickly detected that someone had broken in the executives did nothing. we will spend the next half hour diving deep into this story and looking at what went wrong plus the secret black market for credit card information and the underworld

pfizer pulled up stakes in 2009 and actually -- my apologies, it's "the weekly standard." to one of the uprooted residents and found nothing has been done. people were uprooted basically for nothing. >> yeah, and that's a heartbreaking case. eight years old. it did spark a public outcry. so much so that president bush, president at the time, signed an executive order indicating that the government's eminent domain power must be used clearly for a public benefit and not for the benefit of private constituencies like pfizer for precisely the reasons you just articulated. >> well, this is all very fascinating. julia, good luck to you in your case. >> thank you. thanks, karen. >> i know you've got a website and people are helping donate for your legal bills. i hope those keep coming in. >> i do too. thanks for the visibility. >> absolutely. thanks to you, paula. >> pleasure. >> that does it for me, guys. thanks so much for joining us. stay tuned to msnbc all evening for any and all developments on missing malaysia airlines flight 370. and i'll see you back here next weekend af

looking at pfizer. merck and pfizer are actually lower. eli lilly up one quarter of a percent. johnson & johnson. take a look here at verizon, sprint, no pf just to name a few. back to you. adam: thank you very much, nicole. fedex is getting iced out, literally. the shipping giant reported disappointing numbers. whether leading to big mrs. purple profit and revenue. donald, a lot of people will look to the fed for an indication about the economy. what does this tell us? >> it tells us we will continue to see growth in e-commerce. the real problem for fedex, though, was the weather. the response to it, ironically, in the quarter were said the situation from an earnings perspective. they dow dealt with it by throwing money at the situation. they paid their people more to work more overtime. they pay their people who volunteered to work on christmas day. i had a package delivered to mike -- to my house on christmas day. adam: was it all because of the response to the bad weather? >> this was weather related. last year was the second warmest most mild winter. this winter, of course

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barbara, obviously lipitor just printed money for pfizer.er companies out there that have a similar story to tell? >> so basically we saw news out of the american college of cardiology over the weekend reporting out on amgen's new class of cholesterol lowering drugs. there are other companies in this field, the drugs are called pcfk-9s. they showed dramatic improvements over the standard of care in terms of lowering ldl cholesterol. other players in the field are sanofi in collaboration with regeneron and pfizer. >> we nouknow a lot of drug companies move in terms of their share price on hope. if you take a statit, n, it can a pill, but some of these new drugs can be very expensive and might be injectable. >> absolutely. so they will be injectable, although they can be self injected. they will be every several weeks or even once a month, and because they're bye-b biologics they will be very expensive. lipitor was the large esst sell drug in the world. additional, it is still not clear whether the measurements of cholesterol are going to be s

united technologies also pfizer, home depot, american express and disney.s powering those losses in today's session. sue, back to you. >> thanks, dom. >>> and bob pisani for more on the market, into this conversation. bob, i found it interesting jim iuorio basically said it felt panicky in chicago xxxvii a short while ago. it doesn't here. a little intense. down 200 points, but a disconnect between the bond and stock market. i'm wondering which will be more accurate? >> a notable move in the bond market. yields moved to the down side. >> 2.66, from 280. >> quite a notable move. notable in stocks though the vix not as much as you might expect. geopolitical issues put up the s&p poor economic news in in china. concerns about ukraine. reuters is running a story now. the ukraine saying that russia has fired on one of its planes over crimea. that's in the mix. earlier reports the acting president said he saw a risk of war with russia here. rick made a very good point about the end carry trade. it bears repeating. it's impacting our markets. put up the yen. this

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i can't make changes to pfizer or exxon or any of those companies because i'm not a big enough shareholdere but this can't i can. that's why i think to demonize that or to make government the problem is to abdi gate our own ability to reform it. >> i think it's abdicating your only responsibility in recognizing there's a problem. i want to show people there's so much misdirection and pretension in what goes on in congress. >> jon: do not disagree. >> it's hard for voters to know what vealy going on. >> jon: true. >> just like the debt limit thing that went through. there was a controversy because ted cruz made them go through the regular process but it was the same whispers that good on. hey, if you help us get this perch to pass you won't have to vote for the final thing. you help us pass it. that goods on all the time. >> jon: when is he coming on? do you know cruz? >> yes. >> jon: when is he coming on he would hate this. he would love this. >> you and he -- i gash -- the way he is presented to the media is totelely different. he is a smart guy, not afraid of people in washington. >> jon

pfizer is among the stocks to watch today after losing a patent ruling for its number one selling arthritis drug celebrex.gm is out with a recomendation that drivers use just one key and the fob to avoid an ignition switch issue.the ignition is under recall. gm is offering free loaner cars. president is urging congers to pass an aid package for ukraine while warning russian president vldamir putin of the high cost of invading the nation. todd horwitz of average joe options joins us on the show now. good morning bub. >>good morning angie. >>are we in for a market meltdown or a holding pattern? >>it's a great question and i think the market's actually going to make an extremely large move here. i tend to think to the downside. as you know i like to be dr. doom. but if it went to the upside it wouldn't be surprising. what we're seeing here is real severe consolidation or congestion and the market's gonna break out pretty big one way or the other. i do think it's to the downside but if it went to the upside i think a lot of it will have to do with the fed meeting next wednesday. >>copper choppe

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my personal opinion is that the pfizer structure works well. we should look at a range of potential options to improve that transparency. >> if i had a recommendation for you, it would the as much as possible, given the aspects of national security that you maybe give some speeches in various venues where you could explain better to the american people --t you're doing and not perhaps on exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it. i don't think americans are aware of the extent of the is not onlythat accomplished, but being attempted by our adversaries and potential adversaries around the world. ma'am i think you are correct. >> i think you are correct. >> thank you both for your service to our nation. thank you to your families as well. the white house recently announced the creation of a voluntary framework to establish a cyber security guide for organizations involving one of the critical infrastructure and this effort and framework standardizes the cyber security defensive measures to assist in protecting, detecting, responding to, a

the best-selling pharmaceutical of all time, of course, is pfizer's lipitor.ut news is now out about a special kind of new drug to combat high cholesterol. they are bioengineered proteins that keep your liver from absorbing cholesterol and companies like amgen, sanafi, regeneron, and pfizer are working on these kind of drugs. here's a catch. statins are typically pills taken orally, they are cheaper because generic versions are available and these new versions are meant to be taken as injections periodically. they could cost a heck of a lot more as well. there is also more testing that needs to be done but investors seem to be optimistic at least for now. check out shares of amgen. they are outperforming the market today. could be one of the reasons why this news on perhaps a new beneficial form of combatting high cholesterol. tyler? >> dominic chu, thank you very much. >>> open enrollment for obamacare comes to an end. yes, we really mean it, an end today. did the people who were supposed to do it, do it and is this going to be a big win or a big loss for the

some good news about pfizer's blockbuster vaccine. a major trial showed that the vaccine helps prevent pneumonia and other infections in elderly patients. the vaccine is already on the market to treat children and adults. some analysts say if it's approved to treat patients over 65, sales could increase by $1 billion or more. despite that on this down day shares of the drugmaker were down more than 2.5% to $31.12. an update on zojenix. an ongoing story we've been telling you about. the head of the food and drug administration is defending the agency's approval of the controversial painkiller zohydro saying the drug offers a unique option to treat pain. but experts still oppose it, saying drug is too powerful and potentially addictive. zojenix rose 4.5% to $3.67. sotheby says its board rejected three directive candidates nominated by activist investor third point. the company's largest stakeholder. the auction house instead put up two names of its own. third point has been pushing for management changes at sotheby ess. shares fell to 3

, and internet data, the use of pfizer collect bulk to etc. rsonnel records, we can go into more detail in the questions. that is the primary concern of the average american super concerned about the government holding large quantities of phone metadata. no content, no names, just the data. we think we have found a way to do that. we can explain it later. what will, breaking member to make comments. this is a significant step. the white house is moving to our position on this. we been sarah -- we have been sharing with them for a few weeks. this is an important step for them and moving forwards we can get on to other important matters. i will turn it over to the breaking member. >> thank you. i want to acknowledge the leadership. we have been working on these issues to protect our country for lease the nine -- for at least the last nine months. the chairman and others in the committee have had negotiations. we had come to an agreement so that we can have a bipartisan bill. too want to knowledge members here today, working on cyber issues. i wa

pfizer halted also today after saying that they would appeal a judge is what ruling.fe down. we will see where it finally traded on the day, but that has been an interesting saga. >> we are kind of in the middle ground here. we will have our first conference with janet yellen next week, we will see if there will be more indications on purchases, but corporate earnings are done, kind of a middle ground here. we are waiting for new data on the economy to say what kind of backdrop, once you rule out the excuses of the weather. interesting day. back to these stock stories. herbalife and pfizer. >> at one point herbalife was down 14%, although before this it was up. ackman, this is his number one loss. he is obviously very short the stock. i suspect that this is the biggest losing position he has ever had. >> he has got to be really happy today. >> they have finally opened that inquiry. >> the thing is, this inquiry could stretch on for months. sure, this is a one-day victory, but in the world of trading it is not a victory until you close your position. he is not doing th

the time reports pfizer and amgen are working on a drug to mimic the mutation.authors admit more research is needed. >> forbes is out with a list of richest people on the planet. this year, there are more women. as for wealthiest person in the world, well, that hon honor goes to microsoft co-founder bill gates. there are 42 new female billionaires. lillian bettencourt is number two, with $34.5 billion. three is another walton family member, alice walton. >> quicken loan as announced it's partnering with yahoo and warren buffet for billion dollar bracket challenge buffet promised to give a billion dollars to anyone filling out a perfect ncaa tournament bracket. experts say there are nine quintilily. on form you'llations. it costs nudging from entering. >> odds are so poor you don't have to have any knowledge. >> right. >> michael finney is here answering questions sent to him by facebook book, twitter and e mail. vicky says i'm getting a vied sliding glass door installed and i've been told they'll check for smoke detectors. can they snoop in bedrooms? >> yes. the

the federal government would have to get an update from the pfizer court before they could look at theata. this is being lauded by privacy advocates as a major step forward compared to where we work. however, some concerns have already been raised. the general counsel for verizon has already released a statement on theputting this all phone companies might be problematic from a couple of different levels. >> so, why is the administration getting so involved in what is now likely going to be a congressional debate? >> it is very interesting. nobody questions right now that legislation is needed to implement whatever is to come. the white house perspective is this. we need to get involved on this because there are segments of the house and senate who want to go even further, want to be even more restrictive. the white house feels they can preempt that. they can get more of what they want. >> phil mattingly, our white house correspondent in washington. thanks for the update. aol content and ceo tim armstrong talking about the move into advertising. ♪ >> welcome back. the top contenders fo

with the democratic meeting with patrick moynihan and he did go on to win but the pfizer said don't beefensive the president obviously is watching to see if they can make you uncomfortable. look for opportunities for humor. it is important people see the funny side and only see you as stern. >> the number of people who privately again reminded to be real. >> allies were quick to note nothing earth shattering was contained but that asks why were they suppressing for so long? >> just to avoid document released that may be unpleasant. >> with 4,000 pages released today with editions popping up as the day went on. the remaining 25,000 pages will take about two weeks to come on line. lou: something to look forward to. moving the northern california high school acted reasonably when it asked its one dash jack stephens to remove the american flag shirts on sync tamayo to avoid racial tensions. the incident that sparked a lawsuit was violated. the attorney says he will appeal the decision all the way to the supreme court. a nasty brawl breaking out last night. seconds after the buzzer sounded

have really good news in a lot of pharma companies. 2010, pfizer had revenues that were maybe around they've lost 20% of the revenues , but their earnings are exactly where they are. they've done that by doing share buybacks and bringing things into the pipeline. isple used to say pharma dead, the pipeline is empty, big problem. we are seeing new drugs and hepatitis and cancer and there's a lot of stuff coming down the pipeline. people have more faith in the industry. ofis there a broader appeal different kinds of investors looking at the health care etf? >> i talked to a lot of specialists on the buy side and the sell side. , people more and more going sector to sector, looking at health care. one analyst says he's done more presentations for generalist investors then he has in several months. allow has the eba affected of us? there was some concern would be bad for the health-care industry and then it shifted to good. is that having any effect? >> look at how the sector performed in the years leading up to passage and right after, what you saw is in 2010 from april, right after the

my personal opinion is that the pfizer structure works well. we should look at a range of potential options to improve that transparency. >> if i had a recommendation for you, it would the as much as possible, given the aspects of national security that you maybe give some speeches in various venues where you could explain better to the american people what you're doing and not -- perhaps on exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it. i don't think americans are aware of the extent of the penetration that is not only accomplished, but being attempted by our adversaries and potential adversaries around the world. >> i think you are correct. >> thank you both for your service to our nation. thank you to your families as well. the white house recently announced the creation of a voluntary framework to establish a cyber security guide for organizations involving one of the critical infrastructure and this effort and framework standardizes the cyber security defensive measures to assist in identifying, protecting, detecting, responding to, an

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