phillip morris, wealthy work fewer people are smoking, it is coming up with various product that are supposed to be less harmful. those have been seeing increasing demand. boston scientific at the midpoint of its sales forecast. that is the good. what about the bad? life-sciences receiving estimates, saying they should have not just met estimates -- actually, that is crude oil -- that is not what i was looking at. crude oil prices are trading lower as well. we will get back to some of these later. mark, i am out of time. back to you. mark: julie, i gather we are coordinated say, my tie and your dress. vonnie: you have to do that more often. mark: i was the last to notice. it was a director who told me. vonnie: the best laid plans. mark: there you go. some policymakers expressing concern about inflation. governor mark carney warned surprises could still be ahead. the brexit journey is just beginning third while the direction of travel is clear, there will be twists and turns along the way. whatever happens. my zÜrich policy -- whatever happens, monetary policy will support necessary a

does that make you want to go to phillip morris? that's international smoking. domestic. >> if he were to tweet something with tobacco or tobacco products, i think it's shoot first. ask questions later. and i think the entire space, not unlike what happened to biotech six or seven months ago. >> the stock gap down after this morning, it was below 70. one of the things that was interesting. it closed near the highs. when you look at that prior high. that was setting up, if that stock had closed below 70, just on a pure technical standpoint, that could have been impressive. i think you make a good point about the international once. >> does that pique your interest? >> i'm with you. you should not be smoking. >> it's terrible. >> look at pete najarian. look at that. don't smoke. >>> still ahead, facebook hitting a new high. you won't want to miss out on what facebook the mark zuckerberg has to say. you're watching cnbc. first in business worldwide. in the meantime, here's what's coming up. ♪ everybody was kung fu fighting ♪ >> if you're worried about more losses,

cigarette sales, down again at altria, parent of phillip morris. nicole, the price and the story.le: it's down about 2% for altria today. you talked about cigarette sales. cigarette sales are down about 4%. cigar sales did a little better, people are smoking big fat cigars and smokeless tobacco. and despite the sales dropping, they beat on profit. how did they do that? >> they have been cutting costs and a stake in sabmiller they benefitted from on the beer deal of anheuser-busch and sabmiller. and saving 50 million a year going forward. they're working on ramping up the profits despite the cigarette sales that are slipping. stuart: okay, we now have the dow industrials up 100 points. shah gilani, would you buy what's called a sin stock, liquor, tobacco? >> yes, i do. i don't currently own any, i think they're good stocks because of the dividend yield, but i finertocks more exciting and now industrials are looking exciting. there's a place for stocks in the portfolio because of the yield. stuart: we've got a development at facebook and i tell you this development is the reason why