once again, roche can rely on its strong oncology franchise. particularly breast cancer drugs where sales rose 28% and one drug saw a massive growth of 82% for that quarter but there are still some concerns about roche and to what extent it has been hit by currencies. a lot of the cost base here is in a strong swiss franc. export markets in the u.s. with the strong dollar. how is all of that feeding into the numbers? well the ceo was pretty relax relaxed. >> it's rather limited. so we grew sales by 5% in solid growth. in swiss franks it's 3%. that's only 2%. what it tells you is the sharp decline in the euro is actually compensated by the strong development of the u.s. dollar so overall the impact for us is rather limited. >> so you wouldn't have to take any measures to reduce our cost base here in switzerland as a result of that. >> we have to work on productivity. but 80% outside of switzerland and such we're less exposed to currency fluctuates. >> one of the big trends that roche is betting on many other players in the market are very active

roche beat sales estimates yesterday. we are joined now by an analyst from geneva.o have you with us this morning. the numbers from novartis great. let's skip all that and talk about how busy this company has been in the last 12 months. they wrap up a deal with glaxo. they bought the glaxo cancer drugs as well. they formed a joint venture for their consumer health care products. how long does it take to shake this out and carry on delivering? >> you are right. the last year has been a transformational year for novartis. i would say they started the year very strongly, especially on the productivity side beating estimates by some 12% encore operating profit. as you said, glaxo oncology business only contributed one month, but we've seen now a big contribution from this business which is around $2 billion. as you said they've invested on the vaccine business. that will also help on the margin. i would say that they are really improving. they have created novartis business services. that will also save on the cost. jonathan: good stuff. you call it a huge execution yea

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this hugh roche kelly ends his testimonial saying, i can't help but have enormous respect for him so well done, that man. the story touched a lot of people. this user says. this user says wonderful, character, honesty intimacy, bravo. now, it's important to note that another germanwings pilot had made a similar speech just three days after the crash. brita english was traveling from hamburg to colon on march 27, that's three days after the crash and the pilot came out of the cabin before takeoff and made a similar speech promising the passengers and crew that they'd be safe with him. tom: ok. interesting. let's move on now. back to france, staying in france rather, because there's news out of the fashion industry, is that what you picked up for us next? shona: yes. we are going to talk about this anorexia story. it was prompted by the death of a model, a french model. she died of anorexia in 2010. that's her photo. so the first law that was passed banned models that has a body mass index or b.m.i. under 18 from working in the fashion industry and those who employ models will spend 18

bombing he did as metal to the city of boston after he won it again the women's winner kenny interline roche and a great story here rebekah agree who lost a leg in the bombing ran the last few miles of the race she rolled her facebook today is the date i take my life back the boston marathon has turned us into something more than just a little athletic joe this is really a big deal with a lot amazing to people coming up next all the people invited to one little girl's parlayed decided not to go what happened next listed the birthday girl spirits. >>pam moore: she was looking forward to a big birthday party but the guest declined the invitation her mother turn to social medium she was born with a region that this order should not have many friends her mom posted a message on facebook from strangers to firefighters even a minnesota vikings player offers one little girl that many of them did not even know. that is is for us tonight at 8:00 we are back at 11:00 with the latest newsletter and sports have a nice evening everyone. . 7 what's that thing? i moved our old security system out here to s

let's talk about roche. sam: that is their business. a large percentage of russia's sales come from oncology drugs. this was a pretty nice beat. 11.8 billion swiss francs versus 11.5 consensus. it was from the products that we are looking for them to be growing strongly. pro jenna is the key drug for breast cancer. it is one of the defense mechanisms we talked about before to enable them to stand up to similar threats. this seems to be going well for them. they basically came up with a 5% earnings growth in first quarter. the full-year they are talking about low to mid single digits. this seems to be at the upper end of that. is it possible they've been raising their targets going forward, or is there something we need to look at as to why they will not be able to match that growth in the first quarter? something to look at. francine: sam, thank you so much. guy: coming up, from sushi restaurants top hospitality to fitness. we will speak to the man behind britain's yellow empire. ♪ francine: welcome back to "the pulse." guy: how far can

des roches: ok. my remarks also do not reflect the view of the national defense university or the united states government. it is always awkward when you are in violent this agreement with members of the podium, but i would like to address a few aspects, focusing on security aspects of yemen and its neighbors. i won't get too wonky, but you can let me know about questions if you want to know about tanks or missile-guided weapons. it is clear that it was a mistake to leave -- in yemen. the calculus at the time was that it would prevent conflict and bloodshed, a move that with hindsight i admit this, considerable hindsight, that was misguided. it is not clear that he retained the loyalty of many parts of the armed forces. the extent to which yemeni armed forces are loyal to him were brought into question with the summer upon's rapid advance into the capital. it ended with his house arrest and interrogation of many a political system. the lack of an opposition to the houthis expansion southward can only

i subscribe to what dave roches and some others have said. here you have the situation with an vid who feels that he was ditched or not supported when the arab spring came about and did not want to see yemen devolve into what happened in iraq when you got rid of a strong person but did not replace the strong person with another strong person. and the same thing in libya. that situation is in shambles. one has to ask with regard to syria what after bashar al assad? it is most of the 17 christian sects in syria happen to be beholden to the al assad family. this doesn't come out in the media, but it's on one of the questions here. what are the implications for that? in terms of getting rid of a strong man in yemen. here we have ali abdullah saleh, over 30 years in power. no one in yemen knows the ethnic groups, the geographic groups, municipalities more than that individual. he's still there. yemen yaerns for security and stability. to completely rule him out on grounds of dislike, of corruption, of misrule, all understandable. but what about th

ordered the report after noticing a pattern of arbitration losses like the case of officer robert roche. opd fired him after a tossed a tear gas canister at people helping an injured protestor during an "occupy" protest. it's no secret to officers they will likely win in arbitration. the report says days before his hearing he posted a picture drinking with other officers at the bar. it's about time, shooters ready, stand by, it said in the post. >> it's a dysfunctional system where attorneys don't get enough time to prepare their case. >> reporter: he has argued several cases against oakland. he is shocked. the report says the city attorney assigned cases to lawyers too close to the arbitration. and at least one instance, the deputy city attorney showed up an hour late to the hearing and admitted she started preparing the day before. >> if you are not prepared, the chances are you're going to lose. >> reporter: the mayor promises change. she wants to hire four more people to help the city attorney fight arbitration cases. >> when we don't have good discipline and accountability systems,

nascar and nike joining this list apple, angie's list yelp ncaa eli lilly roche. a similar fight is going on in arkansas. it asked governor asa hutchinson to veto the religious freedom act, house bill 1228. the nation's biggest retailer. it's also the nation's largest private employer. it says that bill does not affect walmart's values arkansas's values or america's values. if you need any more proof these laws are essentially a closed for business sign in these states take it from legendary investor warren buffett. he told our poppy harlow the legislation is wrong. >> the governor of indiana, mike pence, has said this week that he will fix the law, that he will move to make sure that it does not discriminate against anyone. however, when he was asked over the weekend whether he would add sexual orientation, be in favor of adding sexual orientation as a protected class in indiana, he said that is not something that he's working towards right now. what should be done to fix this? >> well i think if people can exercise discrimination based on sexual orientation, the

two-hour gunbattle with police, which ended when his barricaded hideout was the target for two gasper rochein all, 37 of the party are rested. there were 100 -- several rounds of ammunition were fired. campos faces the original 89 year sentence imposed at the time of the attempt on former president truman's life from which he had been paroled. the nationalist arsenal is believed to have been supplied by reds, now being hunted throughout the island. juan: pedro albizu campos spent almost the rest of his life in prison where he repeatedly said he was the subject of human radiation experiments. photos taken of him in prison show his body covered with welt s. this is a copy of his speech he gave just a month before one of his arrests come his arrest in 1950. [applause] >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, it is not easy to give a speech when we have our mother laying dead and an assassin waiting to take her life. such is the present situation of our country, our mother of puerto rico. the assassin as the power of the united states of north america. one cannot give a speech while the newborn

and it joined with eight other high-profile indiana companies including eli lilly and roche, to urge governor pence to reform the law. and rock band wilco has canceled a may concert. >> wilco. this band you've never heard of, they've decided it is discrimination, so it must be discrimination. >> reporter: but many conservatives in indiana, like radio talk show host tony katz are crying foul. >> if the intent in america is to ensure you have the right to say no and not get attacked for it okay, i'm fine with that but the bill itself i'm not okay with because i'm not interest in legislation to fix a cultural issue, which is the ability to say no. >> reporter: a potentially historic moment, at a time when hoosiers see themselves as charging forward, moving past outdated factories. pouring billions into a modern indianapolis that has become a sports powerhouse and business magnet. now that story is overshadowed by another. >> it's not going to end until indiana and the u.s. decides to quit drawing a line down the middle saying i'm right, you're wrong. >> but if you have no concept of wha

it's partnered with roche.could present additional competition to a program much further along in isis and bio n biogen. this drug from ptc is taken orally where the other one is injected directly into the spinal fluid. potentially some stock movement coming from pt c. we're watching ing ing a cancer conversation in philadelphia. we should see some data from merck out with some additional data. also data in lung cancer and data comparing it with competitor drugs from bristol-myers and some data from bristol-myers on it's drug opdivo. and we spoke to the ceo about what he's excited about. >> we are seeing with this pd-1 drugs, i think we're just scratching the surface. there are a number of other breakthroughs behind this, and i think this field. immunotherapy is very young for cancer but we will see great drugs going forward. >> another area people are excited about is called car-t where you are taking patient's blood cells out of their body and beefing them up and reinfursing them. we've seen a lot of good dat

caroline: for roche -- the u.k. has pledged tax cuts and more spending on health care for police.h castro and marks a significant shift in restoring relationships between the two countries. sri lanka's central bank unexpected we cut its key interest rate. it is the 20th central bank to cut rates this year. it has come when growth has slowed the most in two years stop you can find more on that at bloomberg.com. mark: here is what stanley druckenmiller said about the lowest estimate in china. stanley: the chinese stock market is up after being in a downturn for five years. it is doing so with record breath. it was any other market i would tell you, being at a market observer there is a 98% chance china will be in a cyclical boom 6-12 months from now will stop because it is china, and we do not know the nature of what we are dealing with relative to normal, mature, developed markets, i would downgrade that 295%. >> because you do not trust the data? stanley: no, it is not the data. when i have seen a stock market explode on record volume and breadth like day follows night six months-

quarters of a revenue decline for unchanged revenue, so it has not reflected an increase, but in terms of rochef gross margin, it is higher than what analysts have been looking for, they were expecting 48.8% in the company, and the company itself, ibm that is, was up 4.19 percent and in terms of impact on the stock price, ibm shares have been kind of trading lower leading up to these earnings reports. of course, today, a six-month high. this afternoon, it is ending a pop in the after trading, about 5% or 6% right now following these earning reports, and again, the idea that the company was able to produce results lower than that is interesting. asia-pacific revenue is up $4.1 million, so there are a lot of expectations heading into this that the stronger dollar would take a bite out of some of its overseas earnings, and we are going to look through this overall to see how this plays out. we will see how the stock is reacting right now certainly, there is a point concern when you have a global multinational company like this, like ibm. alix: scarlet, hang on one second, i want to bring in cory j

afternoon with thunderstorms as well here is what looks like sfo can't disguise it is what outside roche also continue to be what as you like a way out you could plan on for the next 5:00 hour here is what looks like right continues to move on to the area by 6:00 most of the rain this is just across the south into livermore and fremont and san jose will continue to move off to the eastern direction the rest of the area will concede to stay dry however into the eight to 9:00 hour we will have some isolated ranges across the peninsula along the coastline. >>reporter: would also sees some potential daytime heating with the sun out as well as a lot of our pockets of some brain you could see isolated showers move through the region and by 3:00 with a potentially see some thunderstorms member across the south back and some other areas but it will be isolated with the possibility for some localized heavy rain and to small help. was to get moving off into the eastern direction. will see some smoke throughout the day here is what the storm warning we have posted now until tonight elevations about

the inspector general said there's benny roche and of trust in the department. in that fiasco our government knowingly allowed firearms to land in the hands of international gun traffickers. after congress called on the leadership of the department to account for this foolish operation, what did they do? did they apologize to family? quite the quite the opposite. they denied it and hid the facts from the congress and american people. they bullied and intimidated members of congress and anyone who had the audacity to investigate or uncover the truth. the department has also failed to hold another government agency accountable. the internal revenue service. we watched what happened is this powerful agency. what did these agencies do to make the government target them? they have the courage to speak out about our constitution, and for what? they were targeted by the irs. what was the justice department's reaction? why did they target citizens on the basis of political beliefs? they appointed a campaign donor to lead an investigation that hasn't gone anywhere and ma

anthony: the roche -- colonel, how long will the logistics and operational assets on the ground in yemen likely last, including ammunition? and what are the implications for u.s. yemeni defense corporation that is now on hold and idling at the intersection? how do you assess this situation and what is the prognosis? kernel: qr, sir. -- colonel: thank you, sir. the other vehicles rebel lines of litigation and unfortunately rebel line of communication is what you and i would call a road. the target set is already fairly broad. what you will see happen is some form of precision guided munitions will run not relatively quickly because there are not a lot of stocks and they are difficult to replace. we don't know for sure what has been used, but based on what they bought, i assume paisley and brimstone, which are british produced and used by britain and saudi arabia, if those production line is small and incapable of searching and they will run out quickly and you will see typhoon and tornado having to move back up to the north. on the other hand, the former douglas produced snap-on's those a

other drug companies from novartis to roche to pfizer also have programs focusing on autism.ing focus in the community on appreciating what's known as neurodiversity valuing neurological differences without seeking to treat or cure them. today is all about bringing awareness which is five times more common among boys than girls. the reading according to blue autism speaks is that we wear blue today. >> autism speaks founded by bob wright and suzanne wright of course, after their grandson was diagnosed almost ten years ago. they're in their tenth year have done so much to raise money, get business involved. one reason you're seeing buttons like this at the exchange and all around america today. 70 million children teens and adults around the world and 50,000 of them moving into adulthood with some complex issues. >> unfortunately a growing number and an important cause for research. >>> let's send it over now to jon fortt. morning, jon. >> morning, sarah. the latest on indiana's controversial law and the tech world's reaction to it. >>> also can lasers improve the movie experi

. >> kernel des roches how long will the legit stake the operational assets on the ground in the yemen like the last including munition -- ammunition and what are the implications for the u.s. yemeni defense cooperation that is now on hold paralyzed, idling at the intersection? how do you assess the situation? what is your estimate prognosis? >> thank you sir. well, the saudi military spokesman said that the saudi targets are typos, missiles, installations, and then vehicles than lines of communication. unfortunately a rebel line of communication is what you and i would call a road. the target is already very broad. what you will see happen is some forms will run out relatively quickly because there's not a lot of stocks than they are difficult to replace. we don't know for sure what has been used, but based on what they bought i assume payware gravestone, which are british produced are british producer normally used by britain and saudi arabia. if the production line is relatively small, it is incapable of searching. they will run out of data quickly and what you see as typhoon and to

drug companies have been focusing on genetic drivers of autism from roche to pfizer.n the very early stages. kelly? >> meg, thank you very much. i want to turn to a man who holds autism awareness close to his heart, ringing the closing bell. here joining us at post nine former nbc chairman and autism speaks co-founder bob wright joining us with his grandson mattias who has autism. >> thank you. i'm surprised you're still talking to me. >> before the other fellow alums have a heart attack late april fool's joke you were playing there, bob. thanks very much. changing landscape in the college world. a changing landscape here. it's been ten years since you guys launched. do you think autism is better or less well understood today than it was at that time? >> i think it's much better understood. certainly understood from the point of view of prevalence. i think we managed to get a relatively 50% increase of awareness in the united states among key groups. families with children without children, but intend to have children which is really important. younger people actually