chips to technology stocks grabbed investors attention. all that and more tonight on nightly business report for monday, april 28th. good evening, everyone. $100 billion. that s what pfizer is offering to pay for astrazeneca. this is the second time around pfizer is pushing for a deal with its british rival. investors are cheering. sending the dow soaring. shares of pfizer shot up more than 4% by far the biggest gainer in the dow and astrazeneca jumped 12%. while the pharmaceutical deal may be huge it s not a done deal. astrazeneca has already rejected the offer and an earlier approach from pfizer saying the $100 billion cash and stock offer is too low and that it undervalues the company. we took a look at what combining these two companies mean to the pharmaceutical industry and what s at stake for pfizer and astrazeneca. it s the kind of deal that doesn t come around too often. 14 years ago pfizer paid $85 billion to buy warner lambert. that was the biggest health care
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captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: turkey is an important country by any measure. it is a democracy in a troubled region. however, in the eyes of its critics, it is becoming authoritarian and less tolerant. the country is both modern and old, islamic and secular, it has a gdp growth of 4% and look at its geography, i it it is europn and asian, bordered by iran, iraq, syria and others. the syrian refugee crisis has cost turkey billions of dollars. the turkish country s president is credited with creating turkey as a modern and secular nation. i went to istanbul to visit the prime minister. his party was in local elections. he was interested a man to be a bridge in the world and unsuccessful in gaining admission to the european union. erdogan today is a source today of some controversy. the prime minister is accused of coming down hard on anyone who opposes him. twitter and youtube have been banned and
chips to technology stocks grabbed investors attention. all that and more tonight on nightly business report for monday, april 28th. good evening, everyone. $100 billion. that s what pfizer is offering to pay for astrazeneca. this is the second time around pfizer is pushing for a deal with its british rival. investors are cheering. sending the dow soaring. shares of pfizer shot up more than 4% by far the biggest gainer in the dow and astrazeneca jumped 12%. while the pharmaceutical deal may be huge it s not a done deal. astrazeneca has already rejected the offer and an earlier approach from pfizer saying the $100 billion cash and stock offer is too low and that it undervalues the company. we took a look at what combining these two companies mean to the pharmaceutical industry and what s at stake for pfizer and astrazeneca. it s the kind of deal that doesn t come around too often. 14 years ago pfizer paid $85 billion to buy warner lambert. that was the biggest health care
grabbed investors attention. all that and more tonight on nightly business report for monday, april 28th. good evening, everyone. $100 billion. that s what pfizer is offering to pay for astrazeneca. this is the second time around pfizer is pushing for a deal with its british rival. investors are cheering. sending the dow soaring. shares of pfizer shot up more than 4% by far the biggest gainer in the dow and astrazeneca jumped 12%. while the pharmaceutical deal may be huge it s not a done deal. astrazeneca has already rejected the offer and an earlier approach from pfizer saying the $100 billion cash and stock offer is too low and that it undervalues the company. we took a look at what combining these two companies mean to the pharmaceutical industry and what s at stake for pfizer and astrazeneca. it s the kind of deal that doesn t come around too often. 14 years ago pfizer paid $85 billion to buy warner lambert. that was the biggest health care combination ever. and since