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Liz the top three stories you need to know. Its anything but childs play. Hasbro taking toys and characters linking them to tv shows movies social media even their own tv network. All pushing the stock near 52 week highs. Hasbros ceo on reinventing toys and games, even the easy bake oven. Plus its not just a grown up problem anymore. One in a million kids now have abnormal levels of bad cholesterol. A company is helping them fight it. The ceo is talking to us exclusively about the treatments and opportunities. And theres mardi gras celebrations fill the streets of the big easy, the Economic Outlook not so easy as the president gears up for tonights state of the union address. Thats six hours away, but were live with the latest from the white house. Countdown begins right now. Liz here we go everybody. Im liz claman. It is the last hour of trading. Welcome to countdown to the closing bell. Stocks are moving higher. You can see the Dow Jones Industrials, s p 500 and the nasdaq on the lower right hand side of the screen. But we wanted to focus specifically on the dow. Since the blue chips are leading this market higher and you guys own a lot of them in your portfolio, on your screen, the dow is now about 1 away from its all time closing high of 14,164. 53. We have to always point out the. 53. That was set back on october 9 of 07. Look its true, momentum sometimes begets momentum. So we are watching the next 59 minutes like hawks here on countdown. But in the meantime, in terms of market breadth, you have broad participation. Most of the dow 30 in the green. Back of america bank of america is the biggest percentage gainer and also the biggest volume leader. Bank of america moving higher. Cocacola though one of the few weak links. Q4 earnings did come in ahead of estimates but revenue missed, came in just below expectations on weak sales volume. That puts it in sort of that point where people dont like to see it, especially if they own it, and they are long cocacola. In the meantime, it is as we said, bank of america and the financials that are the real standouts here. Some of the names you might have exposure through, like jpmorgan, pnc, state street, citi. Lets take a look at the spdr select etf. Its a basket of these names. Its risen to four year highs. Not quite at five year highs. But four year highs. The idea being that money is flowing out of bonds and back into stocks. And if rates were to tighten somewhat, not too much, but tighten, the yield curve is good for bank lending and hence good for bank stocks since the spread between deposits taken in and the fees earned on loans widens. Taking that a step further, individual names, look at Goldman Sachs, it is trading at a 52 week high. Right now goldman up by 1. 79. We have citi up 1. 27. Decent gain for citi at 3 . Look at that level at 44. 42. Its finally getting closer to what some investors who got in before that gigantic reverse stock split were hoping to see it at. We have got wells fargo, wells fargo moving higher by 26 cents at 35. 53. And aig, the insurance giant is now reversing, but it did hit oneyear highs earlier today. Right now down just about 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 . I want to point out once again, bank of america far and away heavy trade volume. But also sirius xm, facebook, blackberry, these make things interesting for the floor show. Lets bring in the traders at the New York Stock Exchange cme and nymex. It really feels like it is coming to full bloom at this point, or is there more room . Well, liz, i think you need to have the benefit of a little history. The fact is if you go back to 2000 and you see where the dow and the s p was then, relative to where it is today, we really are going nowhere. Liz right that is true. I mean the fact is we have been in this elongated trading range which has had as much as 50 correction from the highs to the lows which actually mirrors what we went through from 1968, which you werent even born yet but 1968 to 1980. You know, we had the same dynamic when it took, what, 12 or 13 years for the dow to punch through a thousand. Now i think what we really need to do and probably dont have the time to do it now is you need to look at what was going on in the world then as opposed to now to really determine whether or not theres going to be enough momentum to take the market to higher highs. I mean right now they sort of look that way, but at some point, they are going to need to be supported by a dramatically improving economy and dramatically improving corporate earnings, and though the technicals are very positive, and the momentum certainly favors everything moving higher, it remains to be seen whether were actually going to get there. Liz well, were looking at a ten year now. As you can see, yes, there is a way to go, definitely, from what you talked about, especially for those of us who have been saving beyond that, since 2000 or before. But charlie, teddy makes a great point. What was in place back in 2000 . Aside from the fact that there were stocks like all the dot coms that had gone public. Can we get there again without some of those positive moves . I think there was a big important thing. There were a lot more jobs back then. You were just starting to move into the section really if you look at the time period, you had come out of a dot com area and we were moving into what i call the housing era. I think you had a lot of money, refis, again had everything going into the Housing Market that led up to the bubble that we all know what happened there. Moving fast forward to today, i think whats dissimilar is the amount of money thats on the side lines. I think were seeing so much money on the side lines now, and its really kind of a doubleedged sword, liz, because where do we go . You say gee, what is going to push the market higher . It is going to be the Retail Investor really coming back into the market and thats probably the next leg up. But then you think historically liz what does the Retail Investor do . They tend to buy the highs and sell the lows. I dont know if thats bullish or bearish. Liz im with you, a little bit bearish. I mean for a year people have asked the same question, charlie. I mean for a year people have said what is going to push this market higher . We have europe as a problem. We have all kinds of questions. Theres a fear trade going into treasuries and look what the markets did, they moved higher. Exactly. That was absent the Retail Investor. Liz speaking of who wasnt born that long ago, elliot warren, but a young pup back then. I was not alive in 68 either. See, teddy, hes rubbing it in. Thanks a lot. Thats his problem. Oil is alive. It is moving higher today, elliot. And i see brent as well. For once they are moving in lock step. You know what . If you take a look, we saw the products actually had a bit of a sharper move. Crude up a few pennies, maybe 40 cents. They are always making for a new story, like i always come on, im like a broken record with crude, we have been in this range for 95 to 99 dollars for quite a while. Volatility is very cheap in crude oil. Liz youre talking about products. Are you talking about whats in the heating oil . I think i was looking at the rbob gasoline contract. That seemed to be leading the charge when i was looking earlier. Liz okay. Im looking at rbob right now. We see it up just under a full percentage point for a march delivery, i think. So yeah about 3 dollars and four pennies. When you look around everything else, i mean, its not that it is a huge move, it is a little bit more significant than the crude thats like the tail wagging the dog, i guess. Like i said, i think they are waiting for a story. Its also like what teddy said. It seems like theres a lot of money sitting on the side lines and people are staying out of the market. Liz well we were around in 1968 and alive and kicking. Thanks a lot. That was before my time. Liz okay. Get rid of elliot right now. [laughter] liz with the market looking so much stronger than four years ago, no doubt president obama could very well lean on that tonight as just under six hours from now, he will lay out his plans for the second term in tonights state of the union address. But hes expected to focus not on the markets but on the economy, and i guess peter barnes, that nagging repetitive question of stronger job creation . Peter thats right, liz. While the dow may be getting close to its alltime highs again, the Unemployment Rate is nowhere close to its all time low. Still stuck around 8 . As you know, and as a result, the president is going to focus on the economy and jobs tonight, pivot to that from kind of the social issues that he talked about in his inaugural address. Now, his aides say though that the blueprint that he outlines tonight for trying to improve the economy and trying to create more jobs is going to sound pretty familiar. Take a listen. Can only happen in a bipartisan way where neither side insists on giving 100 . What that really means is we are going to have to do the harder things which is have entitlement savings, but we also cant expect as some republicans might like that were going to do all future deficit reduction on medicare, medicaid education and we cant even a penny of revenue from tax reform to help lower the deficit. Peter now, on the president s commitment to cutting spending, House Speaker boehner told reporters today, quote, i dont think he has the guts to do it. He doesnt have the courage to take on the liberal side of his own party. Never has. Liz, want to point out that, you know, the first lady has guests up in the gallery there when shes when they come to the state of the union address. Among them, the white house confirms, will be tim cook, the ceo of apple. Liz . Liz apple, yeah, he had a big day at the Goldman Sachs tech conference saying it was a silly side show that investors want them to move some of that cash pile back into shareholders hands. We will be watching for that. Thank you. Peter barnes at the white house. Keep it right here on fox business for complete coverage and analysis the way you need it of tonights state of the union with neil cavuto beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Again from that business and financial angle, you have got to watch it. We will be right here for you. Closing bell ringing in 50 minutes. We have the Dow Jones Industrials up 52 points. A lot of green on the screen. Broad based rally. We will be right back. Stay tuned. Im a conservative investor. But that doesnt mean i dont want to make money. I loveaking money. I try to be smart with my investments. I also try to keep my costs down. Whats your plan . Ishares. Low cost and tax efficient. Find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. Ishares by blackrock. Call 1800ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Read and consider it carefully before investing. Risk includes possible loss of principal. Today is gonna be an important day for us. You ready . We wanna be our brothers keeper. Whats number two we wanna do . Bring it up to 90 decatherms. How bout ya, joe . Lets go ahead and bring it online. Attention on site, attention on site. Now starting unit nine. 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We talk about the recovery, and masco goes right along with it. We have seen the growth there. You talk about remodelling, rebuilding, new home construction. The ceo came out and gave a glimpse of growth, and so with that, you see a good quarter and a good outlook and thats why youre seeing it jump 12 . Back to you. Liz thats a great one year chart. A little heart palpitation early part of the year, but not bad. Thanks for bringing us that. Corporate earnings you could argue one way or another that yes they have been a bright spot recently, but a lot of companies are saying you know what . In the Current Quarter were not sure. We have to downgrade any expectations that will really beat estimates. Many investors expect the momentum though to continue in the new year. Are they right on that . How do you win with your portfolio . My next guest says too much euphoria built into 2013. Hurdles to overcome, but you undersell yourself because every time you come on this show, no matter what you find names to pick. Case in point, bonanza, it was something that you picked back in october. I said lets pick out what bonanza did because of what you had picked and why you liked it. This is up 51 . How did you know to pick this name . We do a lot of mathematical screening liz. We found the stock. It was selling around 4 1 2 times cash flow and the production was up about 150 . And it was exploding to the upside both on reserves and production and was very cheap on a discretionary cash flow basis. We called the company a couple of times because one of the rules we call and visit every company. And it seemed like it was a legitimately good business. Nobody had ever heard of it. It had just come public and we bought it. Because a lot of times it is easy to find companies that nobody ever heard of and to try to play in overpriced market in more efficient stock. Liz this is an independent oil and Natural Gas Company that operates in the u. S. Acquisition exploration development. There are a lot of companies that do similar things. But there had to have been one thing that grabbed your mind. Was it the cash flow . You had mentioned some of the other metrics too. Yes, the big thing was the explosion in the production. If ou looked at barrel of oil equivalent, measured oil to gas, up like 150 year over year. If you look at Big Companies you are happy if you get 3 to 5 percent growth, this is unheard of even though it is on a small base, to have 150 Production Growth and it was statistically very cheap. It was sort of a lay up in the low 20s. As you point out the stock is up about to 33, 34 dollars a show. Liz before we get to your next Bonanza Creek picks because you always have something new for us. The big picture here is you say theres too much optimism. You have said that for more than a year, scott, and the market has done very well. It has because valuations are still reasonable. But if you look on a bottom up basis, most of the s p estimates are like 110, 111 dollars a share. And thats reminiscent of what happened last year and it really came in at 97. 50. Lets be realistic nominal gdp growth this year will probably be 4, 4 1 2 percent. Margins peaked on the s p in the Third Quarter of 11 at 9. 51 . They are down over 100 basis points. General generously we think earnings this year might be 103, up about 6 1 2 . But that still puts the multiple pretty cheap. 14. 7 multiple. And by historic standards, which is about 16, it is undervalued. If you compare it to the alternatives in fixed income, i mean the yields are ludicrous, whether you look at treasuries all the way to the compression of the spreads against the curve in high yield. So equities offer much better opportunities, and a 14. 7 multiple is realistic. Liz we have been trying to tell that to viewers for the past nine months every time we saw the treasury trade, not that we sit here and give advice, but we listen to enough smart people like yourself and you say stop putting stuff under the mattress and yet we put up how you pick a stock and yet you dont just want to be picking anything that you see, despite the quality, there are things to look for. Your next couple of picks, lets get to them. Your two picks for today, Biomed Realty trust. What do you love about this one . More of an asset play, about 13 million square feet of space. It is reit based out of san diego. They do life science buildings. If you have a small spot or a big company, out in the San Francisco area, they build the operation, it is a triple net lease. The Net Operating Income is going to grow at about 11 , about 5 organic this year. If you look at the implicit cap rate, which is cash on cash, it exited the year at 7 , pro forma based on this years Net Operating Income. About 7. 3 cash on cash. I mean, thats very good because most of the reits today are somewhere between 4 1 2 and 6, 6 1 2 percent handles. And you have got nice growth. You are getting paid while you wait. Youve got a 4 1 2 dividend yield. Liz you like that. Thats good for people who are looking for income but they are getting growth to go with it. The dividend is well covered at about 1 1 2 times. Their interest coverage, basically their ebitda over interest to the operation is about 3 1 2 times. So its a bullet proof balance sheet. Its a good operation. And the life science is definitely a growth area for the 21st century. Liz your last pick and we must go but i wanted to give it to people is Ticker Symbol mntx. It is a scott black special and boy when you see what he did last time around, giving you advice in october about, you know, some of these names that are just doing so well, Bonanza Creek up 51 . Manitex is his second pick. Nice to see you. Always a pleasure to have a business barrons roundtable guy with us. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Liz any time. Scott black is with delphi management. Closing bell ringing in 39 minutes. A Major Hedge Fund going through significant changes. Some say forced changes. Investors may be taking their money elsewhere because of fear. Charlie gasparino has the very latest developments. Stay tuned. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. Omnipotent of opportunity. You know how to mix business. With business. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. You can even take a fullsize or above. And still pay the midsize price. I could get used to this. 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Intels outgoing ceo Paul Otellini spoke with me at length about the chipmakers plans when i pushed him on at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas last month. We have been doing things in television for years, displays, the box over here that has intel inside it, we were in the google tv. Being in the living room in television and doing it in a way that makes the television a better experience for end users is something that has intrigued us for many years. I dont want to go any farther than that than to say it is something we are looking at. Liz they have gone farther than that. It is something they are doing. Intel shares moving just slightly higher, not a huge jump here. By the way, he said this is not a value play. This is not going to necessarily be cheaper than your cable box. But trying to figure out what it is. My sources are telling me that he apparently is going to have the organization that offers all kinds of things where you can go back, you know, to ten episodes of the show that you were looking for. How is that different from some of the competitors out there . Lets take a look at cisco. Apple tv which is not out there yet. We will look at tivo as well. It is not getting hurt by this at all. It is moving higher by 2 3 of a percent, pretty much where its been almost all day long. Apple was moving down earlier. Now it is down even more. Cisco which is the Parent Company of nds, own the set top box in some cable systems, all down 1 1 3. Lets get to sac capital, the big famous hedge fund, significant changes are happening there. It is run by steve cohen as many investors apparently prepare to take money out of the fund beginning this thursday, thats the date, amid this wideranging Insider Trading probe. Charlie gasparino. They are not sticking by him after all these years . We should point out that thats not new. We reported that theres going to be we should point out the redemptions begin on the 14th. Thats valentines day. Whats new about this story is the following that a plan to sort of counteract the impact on the fund, they have 14 billion dollars under management, is what they say they are going to roll out. They have been telling this to some significant investors that they will reopen the fund to just a few of those investors. Now, what does that mean . Since 2011, sacs main fund, the 14 billion dollars hedge fund that it is known for, they run a couple they have these other strategic thing on the side, which we will take that out of the equation, but the big fund has been closed since 2011. What they are saying to these investors depending on how much redemptions were going to allow a limited number of those guys back in. Were going to reopen the fund on this very limited basis. At least thats what they are telling people. Liz dont people want to pull their money out versus put it back in . No. Im just saying that to counteract that, they are going to let people in. Now does that mean that they are going to replace the whole 2 billion dollars or whatever they get . I dont know. I can just tell you that i spoke with ed butowski, he is one of the investors that is going to put back in. Hes sticking with steve cohen. Why is that . 26 annual returns annualized returns after fees and expenses. We should point out he has the highest fee and Expense Ratio in the business. He charges you 3 right off the top as a management fee. Then he takes 50 of the profit. And he still returns 26 26 . Done this since 96. Thats why ed butowski wants to put money in. People inside asc tell me people inside sac tell me by the way, if in is a spin job, i have stupid spin stuff on my twitter page, i will say this, they didnt call me. They didnt want me to do the story. They were not happy about it. This wasnt something that was leaked to me, you know what im saying . I spoke with some investors and they say this is one of the plans to counteract this. I think it sounds logical to me. People are going to put money in. Take money out. Theyve got some people that really want to put money in. Liz well the gates open both ways. Okay, so some people are leaving, others who might be less risk averse want to get in. Right. And who think steve is going to beat it. I mean there is a theory, inside sac which they are telling people, it might be all spin, but heres what they are telling them, that they are not going to get cohen, that steve cohen himself is not going to be charged in this thing. That you will get people around the edges, but it is going to be hard just by getting people around the edges to basically put a serious charge against steve cohen. Not only that, you have to put a serious charge against the fund. If steve cohen got indicted tomorrow, sac capital would be shut down, we know that, but the other sort of thing you have to worry about but does the fund itself get closed down because of a significant sec sanction or something to that effect . People dont see that unless you get steve. I will tell you this, with each and every passing day, matthew martoma, the fund manager, latest one to be indicted and charged. He had a conversation with steve cohen about his trade, the suspicious trade he did, which landed him in all that trouble. Hes not cooperating, and thats the only way they are going to make that case. I will say one other thing, unless they get him to cooperate by june, the statute of limitations runs out on a lot of this stuff. You know, if youre betting, a lot of people have put money in sac are betting, they are not going to shut them down. They are not going to get they are not going to nail steve cohen on a criminal charge. At the very least a civil. Theres likely to be a civil charge against the fund. But, you know, there were civil charges against Goldman Sachs right . Liz the belief is that february 14th when the gates open and people can redeem or take out their money remember, they cant redeem immediately. They can redeem in stages. Liz it is not going to be so bad that the fund say for example would suffer a level Global Experience which was a fund that said goodbye. They dont think so internally. I cant tell you. You can interpret this limited reopen stuff as maybe them being scared of a massive redemption, that they are trying to this is the spin job that people think is being planted with me. People expect such a massive redemption that if they say this, then maybe they wont pull their money out. I will tell you this, if this is a spin job, they did not want this was not a story that was easily gotten, im just telling you. Liz while im gone yesterday in cleveland, youre doing the nasdaq big story. My goodness. Yes, it was great. Liz good stuff. Did bob like it . Liz i asked bob today when i saw him at my next story. He said Charlie Gasparino got it half right. Hes a little mad because i would think i would think he didnt like the fact that i said that he has to sell. You know, i think thats one thing. Greifeld believes in his business model. Now get the rest of the market to believe it. I believe it. I think hes a smart guy. Liz charlie, thank you very much. Okay. Liz closing bell ringing in 27 minutes. Hasbro is embracing the digital world. My little pony, action figures, like transformers, they are going through a major branding campaign, but are they a little gray around the temples . Whats happening at hasbro to kind of juice this up, with tv, movies, the internet, social media, not just here in the u. S. But also overseas. Find out how it all comes together. A conversation with hasbro president and ceo Brian Goldner coming up as countdown to the closing bell rolls on. 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Plus get this document shredder free but only if you act right now. Call the number on your screen now liz imagine this, an easy bake oven in jet black, how totally new york chic is that. It may happen. I spoke with hasbro ceo and president earlier today, talked about whats driving his companys growth and the big ideas including new easy bakes. Giving people the opportunity to experience a brand, for example, this morning we celebrated my little pony, 30 years in the market and yets been completely reinvented. It is not like the my little pony that you and i grew up with. Liz that was very kind of you to say the one i grew up with. But i will say my daughter absolutely went nuts for the my little pony, but i did not realize it had such longevity. Thats one of your biggest drivers, my little pony. Right. We find that combination of a known brand presented in a new way is really compelling. And its working not only for us in the united states, but around the world. So we have my little pony now on the air in 180 countries around the world as a tv series. Its connected via a mobile game. Its connected via online experiences. And then also obviously toys and games and great licensees that allow a consumer to enjoy that brand any way they want, any form or format any time. Liz how calculated was it to do what you just articulated not just my little pony but one of the things you look when you look at hasbro is you are taking the toys and not just saying heres a little plastic pony to play with, you have the tv show on the hub, you are looking at social media, you have all kinds of things like that. Who brought that whole idea all together . How successful has it been for you . Its really been terrific. If you go back in 2000 when the team all got together, the company was 2. 7 billion dollars in revenue. Today were just knot of 4 billion dollars north of 4 billion dollars. The fact is at that time we had spent a decade really focused on other Peoples Properties. It was back in the 80s when we had invented all these brands, transformers, my little pony, g. I. Joe, inconveniented in the 80s invented in the 80s, put first back on television back then. In the 90s it was about other Peoples Properties and about licensing and other things. Liz what in the planning are you most excited about . I cant choose between my children. Its like, you know, there are so many things. If you think about the next couple of years, on a brand like transformers on the fact that disney and marvel have teamed up and disney and star wars have teamed up, you think about those initiatives. The transformers movie for next year as well as the fact we have tv shows, my little pony, transformers, Littlest Pet Shop all around the world. We are growing at twice the rate of the emerging markets in the industry over the last five years. To us thats the future. Our brands are connecting with consumers. Liz when a transformers franchise gets old, whats next . You reinvent it. This year we have reinvented it. The tv show completely changes. The game completely changes. Next year in the movie all the characters as well as the cast completely change, a whole new story. Always something new for consumers. Liz your biggest problem i would imagine is kids, your core customer, do you bring in kids to play . Every day. We have to bring in kids every day. We have something we call the fun lab. And the fun lab is the place where we learn from kids every day. We take it all over the world, this fun lab idea. We learn from kids. We have to do that. But the fact is were also creating those kinds of experiences for kids so whether its a transformer that goes across all these different platforms or whether its angry birds star wars. This fall were launching this brand new Gaming Platform that we havent really started to talk about yet but we should talk about soon thats going to be very interactive and allow kids to play with our characters and do it in a mobile setting. Liz easy bake oven you are going to be making them in gender neutral colors . Going to make them for everybody. Plenty of aspiring chefs, boys and girls. The girls have loved it forever. In fact over many years we have had many different colors. So this is not exactly new, but it is new for this generation. We thought it was time we do this. Liz want to get to the monopoly pieces. Sure. I think if you really think about it and you talk to any kid, i think most kids had no idea what that was on the board anyway. What kid would want to play with an iron . It wasnt even a new iron. It was like the old iron. Liz what were some of the suggestions that you got that were a little out in left field . People want everything from robots to, you know, other kinds of characters. Liz cell phones. Yes, exactly. For us so often people play with the dog. So many dog owners that love monopoly. And the cat owners of the world united. We got votes in from 185 countries around the world. You talk about how people all feel monopoly is their game. The properties on the game are actually different all around the world. So they are consistent with whatever properties exist in that country. Liz a token of liz claman or Charlie Gasparino. That would be good. Liz we were hoping for that suggestion. Finally the we have a great team who makes very specialized editions. Im sure they could figure out how to do it. As long as youre willing to sit for sculpting. [laughter] liz closing bell ringing in 16 minutes. Will a 300,000 miracle drug sell . Yes, one year of treatment, 300,000. Well a Pharmaceutical Company has created a pretty Major Business around curing a genetic disorder that causes high cholesterol and unusually high cholesterol in young children. It is a problem, but will wall street really love this stock . Its gotten quite a few upgrades this week alone. Price targets going up. In fact nine out of ten Analysts Covering this stock think it is a buy. Should you join in . The ceo is up next to talk about the Ground Breaking drug coming up. Twins. I didnt see them coming. I have obligations. Cute obligations, but obligations. I need to rethink the core of my portfolio. What i really need is sleep. Introducing the ishares core, Building Blocks for the heart of your portfolio. Find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. Ishares by blackrock. Call 1800ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Read and consider it carefully before investing. Risk includes possible loss of principal. Liz i want you to imagine this, a drug to treat a rare genetic disorder preventing cholesterol from being cleared from the body, so it piles up, but it hurts children. Well the drug can save the lives of young people all over the world, it now exists. With the pills at the price of 300,000 per patient per year, will the Pharmaceutical Company find enough support . Were bringing in the ceo to join me now in a fox business exclusive and very smart analysts believe that you will. You are getting many many upgrades. Theres a lot of belief in this drug. I want to know about that moment when after 15 years of Drug Development you got word it was approved. Liz, i tell you, the moment when i heard was on a friday night. It was december 21st. I was having dinner with my three children, and i looked them in their eyes and said that if one of the three of you had this disease, i would be on the floor crying, and thats because the impact that this can make on young adults and patients are affected with this disease is truly transforming. And this year is our year to now get this drug to the patients of need. It is a transformational years. For the last several years we have been working on development. Now we get the opportunity with an fda approved product to get this critical life saving drug to the patients of need. Liz a lot of people think of high cholesterol as an adult problem, but this particular disease is something that affects 1 in a million kids. So it is not in huge numbers, but if its your kid, you dont care what the numbers are. Critical. Liz tell me how this drug works. So juxtapid is the first compound, first medicine in this category. And it worrs differently than all the other cholesterol medicines. Cholesterol gets eaten up in our liver so these kids have a defect of the liver. Our livers have a light switch and it goes on and off and it tells the body to eat up the cholesterol. They dont have that light switch. They are born with this disease, this genetic disorder. All of the other conventional medicines go in and click that light switch and eat up the cholesterol. We act upstream from that and we in essence stop the dietary uptake of cholesterol into the periphery. We stop the bad cholesterol from going in and creating a lethal level of lipids. Liz can you stop the bad things that come from high cholesterol, like Heart Disease and heart attacks . Do these children suffer heart attacks. I was recently contacted by a child, a young adult, 20 years old, christian who contacted us through facebook. I said christian can you come in and talk to us about what its like to live with this disease . And he said mr. Beer, he said i set my alarm clock for 12 01 every night. I said why do you set your alarm clock for 12 01 . I want my mom to know what night i pass away if i have a heart attack or a stroke in the middle of the night. Thats the fear these young adults live with every day. They tell me that they wake up, and when they are brushing their teeth, is today the day im going to have a heart attack. Christian, that patient had his fifth heart attack in the last 12 months. Liz this is going to be something thats a game changer, but at 300,000 per treatment per year, the question becomes are you getting pushback from the patients or their parents or Insurance Companies . You know, the most important thing about this category of Rare Diseases is that you develop products and medicines for ones that are devastating, you know. This one is devastating, and then the medicine has to be corrective or disease modifying. We truly can take patients out of harms way. It is not an oncology drug that can add three months. Christian on this therapy chronically we could allow him decades and potentially to meet his grand kids. Thats what everybody in the organization is motivated to do. Liz they would say its worth it. Then the question becomes are you now a very attractive target from some of the bigger pharmaceutical companies and would you look at that as an opportunity where there can be better distribution or would you like to remain independent . You know, i address that question all the time because the pharma and major Biotech Companies are looking for drugs that are approved so now that the risk is behind us, they look and they look for opportunities like this. We have no interest of that path. My background is Global Infrastructure build of Rare Diseases. So were looking forward to building that. We are on our way now. Just last week we launched in brazil. We have our country managers in japan. We have the full operation in the u. S. In a short 2 1 2 years ago, it was myself and one other person. And now liz its a great story. Were going country by country with this passion. We have a motto, the patient is waiting. We had that motto until it got approved and now were saying the patient is waiting still. We have to get it out to the patients in need. Liz a big thank you to all of your scientists who have worked for 15 years on this. The stock up before today up 56 year over year. Its an unbelievable move. And good luck. Thank you very much. Thanks liz. Liz a proud miami of ohio graduate by the way. Closing bell ringing in 6 minutes. Who is that calling at the door . The top performer on the s p 500. Oh, you can guess; right . Stick around. I will tell you which stock is best looking today. Thats next. Did you know not all fiber is the same . Citrucel is different its the only fiber for regularity that wont cause excess gas. Its gentle and clinically proven to help restore and maintain regularity. Look for citrucel today. [ male announcer ] this is karen anjeremiah. They dont know it yet, but they gonna fall in love, get maied, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, theyll find some retirement people who are paid on salary, not commission. Theyll get straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isnt rocket science. Its just common sense. From td ameritrade. Liz hey, look, you could argue that avon has been embattled lately. Not today at all. We have the stock jumping about 20. 5 . This is the intraday picture. You stretch it out, you can see its been a rough go for avon,

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