their slogan for whether monsanto monsanto out. the activists say monsanto's negative image in argentina will rub off on by our. it would be a smart move by monsoon. to change its name because buyer has a good reputation and people respect. now the two want to merge and that's why i believe that in the course of this whole process that buyer will ultimately lose. and as they went ahead and bought the profits. now there's practically nothing left of months sandoz gigantic project the shell structures that had already been built were demolished by the company months ago. and. there aren't even any signs indicating that the land belongs to monsanto for the people of the municipality mugginess argentina the place has become a symbol of successful resistance. the thing is you know this was such a become monsanto's biggest seed factory but instead it's been a massive defeat not going to have a lot of those and this is a monument to that defeat we want to move i think it will carry a lot more weight than the image buyer hopes to sell. a.

some of your favorite alcoholic beverages are tainted with monsanto as weed killer round up a new study shows that the chemical glycine it is showing up in many brands of wine beer and going organic doesn't necessarily help avoid the issue artie's alex mahela bitch joins us in toronto with more alex shocking amount of u.s. brands come up in this study what can you tell us the shocking study was commissioned by moms across america the health of research institute. the testing and they found that all wines in the u.s. and so many many wines abroad glyphosate in them which is basically roundup now take a look at this map this is really telling when it comes to the u.s. when we look at the dark spots here we see that that's eighty eight pounds or more of the life of say being used per square mile in those areas now who looks like the nevada desert probably the best off to grow stuff if you want to actually avoid life and say you know things don't grow in the desert beer is also affected here a lot of beer brands of found that they have life to say as well in them now glyphosate we've heard

so monsanto may have given the weapons for the u.s. military they work so well mon said it was like crack open the american market. this just in beer. those little things was sausages in the john is this your grocery list with. i'm sorry. that's my bad you have anything else yeah there's. this judge. there's been an attack in the us and it's killing a hundred in fifteen americans a day apparently the cause is opioids but luckily someone actually is standing up to try to punish the drug dealers behind these murders bernie sanders has put forward a bill that would send opioid exacts to jail the bill would threaten big pharma executives with that least ten years in prison should their companies be found guilty of contributing. right. if you look at market marketing practices and it's about time we lock those mother. was locking them up would send a message to all the other criminals out there like you know bank robbers neck grow feel. the peace deal files. they would send a message that crime does not pay basically you lock up really just

monsanto is the gift that keeps on give. to the eternal consternation of the global food movement i mean let's look at the scale of this eighty eight percent of all the corn grown in the united states is roundup ready ninety three percent of all the soy grown in this country is roundup ready it's a monsanto crop and these guys were running such in same headline risk over the past ten years being such bad players suing farmers for replanting their seeds suing everybody who dared cross them they were in such a bad position in this country bart that actually bear agro science a german company bought them out in twenty sixteen for sixty six billion dollars bringing the entire argument from this country america over to europe. just recently said that more than fifty three products made with g.m.o. crops are now allowed in the european union you're still not allowed to grow these crops in the european union what are we going to do to stop this leviathan from swallowing the world i mean obviously alex points out these extraordinary

and this isn't the first controversial clash that monsanto has had with environmentalist or those who have clear concerns with the use of herbicides or pesticides or for that matter g.m.o. those genetically modified organisms like crops such as roundup ready corn and beans and here to head some light to that is spread kaufman the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred thanks for joining us again help us out here on monsanto they've had a rough and rocky road over the years haven't they. monsanto is the gift that keeps on giving to the eternal consternation of the global food movement i mean let's look at the scale of this eighty eight percent of all the corn grown in the united states is. roundup ready ninety three percent of all the soy grown in this country is roundup ready it's a monsanto crop and these guys were running such insane headline risk over the past ten years being such bad players suing farmers for replanting their seeds suing everybody who dared cross them they were in such a bad position in this country bart that actually bear agro science a german compa

justice department will give the green light to german pharma joined by is takeover of monsanto just a few weeks after the potential deal was given the ok by the e.u. commission by intends to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted that by divest additional assets as part of the deal a full now goes smoothly mega deal will be the biggest ever taken all the u.s. company by a german one. back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel the merger appears to finally have the green light despite many concerns. yes exactly where and there are still are lots of concerns because we have to face as with this merger by our monsanto we'll have a mano paly position that is the reason why until the very end approvals from the us and also e.u. authorities were pending and monsanto has said in the past that their version at least with this merger they will play a major role to make sure to meet the rising demand for food in the future others see all of this very different mostly farmers are concerned their fear that their seed cause go up dramatically a

s acquisition of agro chemical and biotech firm monsanto monsanto is valued at over sixty billion dollars the deal was initially announced in september of two thousand and sixteen and was cleared by european regulators last month after bear agreed to sell soy cotton and chemical assets including the main competitor to monsanto's roundup b.s.f. berry has agreed to additional sales of assets in seed in agriculture technology to meet the specific concerns of u.s. regulators. and the tariff talk between washington and beijing continues in earnest as u.s. president donald trump tweeted today and other administration officials have been out in public discussing the matter to bring us up to speed alex mchale that joins us from toronto alex first of all tell us about where we've come in just the last month for those of us not paying attention to the individual tick tocks of the moment. and we are going to get back to january when those first tariffs were kicked in by the united states against china for solar panels and washing machines and from there it just started steam rolling or snowballing a

regulators are about to approve buyers' take of monsanto. what have you heard?> well, what i have heard is that the companies agreed to sell more assets. it will get the approval of u.s. authorities of the justice department to go ahead with the $60 billion merger. we sought immediate impact on the stock price of monsanto, the stock gaining a good 6%. there's also word out that probably the german company psf might be buying those assets. we still do not have a confirmation yet. sources close to the company breaking this story, but obviously there is a pretty good chance that after the european union gave the approval to the merger, last month also the u.s. authorities will follow ahead and then this merger can be finished in the next couple of months. heavier: we will -- hobby year: we will serve -- javier: thank you we will certainly follow that story. germany's biggest and formally most renowned deutsche bank got a new ceo. he has been with deutsche for years. i will not make his task of raising of finances easier, and he knows it. in a letter published monda

monsanto is down a fraction, beyer up a big.can medication of teacher threaten to remove business, so far the bank is resisting, are they right to resist, liz? liz: i don't think the american public wants banks to decide which legal products that consumers can and cannot buy. stuart: i don't like consumer boycotts, period. what do you have d.r.? >> i have to my say brother works for wells and with that said, i think liz is spot on, if we are going to boycott people because of who they serve, we are telling businesses to cut out large portions of their business, i don't think that's right. stuart: i don't like boycotts, period. mike: you have a big union that represents people from both sides of the aisle. they could make the argument and someone there won't like something from every single company. stuart: that could hit the bottom line at wal-mart and target. d.r., i'm told that wal-mart does $13 billion worth of food stamp business. >> 13 billion-dollar and that's the big-box stores because of their convenience and have low pr

claiming that it's hugely popular herbicide roundup causes cancer the lawsuit also says monsanto knew it causes cancer and yet continued to promote it as our wonderful chemical to spray. on your house on your dog in your baby's face. just a good baby cheek. and there have been about two dozen studies including the w.h.o. showing the link between roundup org life post-date and cancer including genetic damage skin tumors dye roig.

claiming that it's hugely popular herbicide roundup causes cancer the lawsuit also says monsanto knew it causes cancer and yet continued to promote it as our wonderful chemical to spray. on your house on your dog in your baby's face. just a good baby cheek. and there have been about two dozen studies including the w.h.o. showing the link between roundup org life zero state and cancer including genetic damage skin tumors dye roid damage a need.

monsanto, we've been signaling the bayer-monsanto deal broke when it first got announced two years agopartment with a few things of the not quite one of these sort of mergers that will, that could squeeze media. one thing they are worried about with bayer-monsanto whether chinese could buy into a piece of it and use some of their technology. they were actually talking about that they dealt with that issue. it was matter of taking some chips of at table. neil: by the way, all ancillary issues about verizon, 4% run-up. deals are back in town here? >> particularly media. if you can get, if the at&t deal goes through with time warner, media rush everybody has been talking about that would happen probably will happen because then you have, justice department can just, it establish as precedent that vertical mergers can happen. that means a lot more horizontal mergers will happen too. neil: you need content for that. you and i streamlined on those tiny little phones. i fine that very thinning. >> you imagine you and i having our own channels? neil: in other words, when you're on tiny device,

big move in germany is to wind, the us authorities have approved the merger with monsanto.many. in france, record high at 5%, they posted better—than—expected sales numbers, the luxury goods maker doing rather well. in london, all the markets across the board in europe boosted by president xi's speech. and kim gittleson has the details about what's ahead on wall street today. along with everybody else, investors will be keeping a close eye on what happens in washington. recent weeks have seen significant volatility in technology shares, particularly in the so—called fang stocks — that's facebook, amazon, netflix and google. one thing leading to these big market moves — the possibility that lawmakers in both the us and elsewhere will implement new regulations regarding what technology firms can do with user data. that could threaten notjust facebook but the business model of companies like google, netflix and twitter, to name just a few. already analysts at the bank of america have warned that the tech sector could be headed to what they call a regulatory driven collapse. wo

shares of monsanto had been briefly halted but now the horses are out of the gate. they are running fast. and then there is this. the i told you so's are coming out of the woodwork. and by the way it's supposed to be bipartisan. the worry warts were right. the tax reform bill will balloon the federal budget. it is forecast to be $804 billion folks, that's a $242 billion increase from previous -- previous estimates. a lot of tax cuts fewer revenues. here is the biggest issue. so fast tracked. by 2020. it's not good news if you are budget hawk. fears of that and anything related to the trade war. looking at the nasdaq as we mentioned it is really moving quite quickly here. up one and two thirds percent. as they scoop up text -- tech stocks. let's break it out. they got a crush on friday. amazon fellow 3.2 percent on friday. looking at it right now it is a better buy one and one quarter percent. alphabet up to a 2%. facebook we already mentioned it's looking pretty firm. in focus pretty much starting later this week was several of the major banks reporting before the o

justice department will give the green light to german pharma giant buyers takeover of monsanto that just a few weeks after the potential deal was given the ok by the e.u. commission by intends to buy the u.s. agricultural giant for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted the buyer divest additional assets is part of the deal that if all now goes smoothly the make a deal will be the biggest ever take of all the u.s. company by a german one. and we can bring in our financial correspondent daniel corp who's following the story for us from the frankfurt stock exchange daniel that final green light from across the atlantic appearing to seal the deal how are investors taking that piece of. in fact very positive had another merger has been taking longer than expected and even though some investors still fear the merger the biggest by the way in german history even for a company like buyer could be too big too risky already last night on wall street during the after our trading shares of buyout jumped higher class of two point one percent monsanto shares jumped even higher to

regulators are about to approve buyers take over monsanto what have you heard what you can tell us about that. well what i've heard is that the companies meaning buyer and month central agreed to sell more assets and with that they will get the approval of u.s. authorities the justice department to go ahead with the six the billion plus dollar merger and we saw an immediate impact on the stock price of one cent of the stock gaining a good six percent and there's also word out that probably of the german company u.b.s. if might be buying those assets we still do not have confirmation yet sources close to the companies breaking this story but obviously there is a pretty good chance that after the european union gave the approval of through the merger last month that also the u.s. authorities will follow ahead and then this merger can be finished in the next couple of months will certainly follow that story very closely thank you very much and scott to new york to russia now where sanctions imposed by the u.s. government to vladimir putin's closest circle and their companies are hitting som

will allow bayer to buy monsanto. the merger was previously held up. the chemical company bayer and monsanto will be valued at $60 billion. bayer won approval after agreeing to sell assets. >>> mark zuckerberg faces questions of user data on capitol hill today. cnn discovered the biggest black lives matter facebook page is fake. the page has almost 700,000 followers. the biggest of the genre. cnn found the page is a scam. it brought in $100,000 that was supposed to go to the cause, but the money went to an australian account. part of the larger push to fix the integrity of the platform on facebook. that page run by a white guy in australia. >> the hits keep on coming. one more thing for zuckerberg to be questioned about on capitol hill. >> what you see on facebook is not always real. >>> "early start" continues right now. >>> why don't i just fire mueller? i think it is a disgrace what's going on. we'll see what happens. >> the president publicly considers firing the special counsel after the fbi raid on his personal attorney michael cohen. >>> it will

justice department will give the green light to german pharma giant by its takeover of monsanto that just a few weeks off to the potential deal was given the ok by the e.u. commission of course intending to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted divest additional assets as part of the deal it will now go smoothly they make a deal will be the biggest have a takeover of a u.s. company by a german one. and we can bring in our financial correspondent daniel cope who's following the story for us from the frankfurt stock exchange daniel that final green light from across the atlantic appearing to seal the deal how are investors taking that piece of news in fact very positive had another merger has been taking a longer than expected and even though some investors still fear that this merger the biggest by the way in german history even for a company like buyer could be too big too risky already last night on wall street during the after our trading shares of buyout jumped higher plans of two point one percent want some top shares jumped

there is that merger and then possible effects on monsanto from the tariffs.sales there. david: let's check on headlines. kailey leinz has first word news. kailey: the leaders of the u.s. and china are waiting to see who blinks first in a high-stakes fight over trade. both have announced plans to impose tariffs on each other's products, and attention is now on whether president trump will try to make a deal. there's still time to back down. the u.s. tariffs can be imposed for 60 days. the trump administration is backing off one of the biggest sticking point in negotiations for a new north american free trade agreement. the u.s. is softening its demand north american content in car manufacturing. the administration is pushing towards a stopgap deal this month. in brazil, it looks like the former president is heading to prison. his appeal was rejected to stay free. leads opinion polls for october's presidential election. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am kailey leinz. this is bloomberg

shares of monsanto are lower. the head of opening bell by a fraction.s of verifone up sharply after the company reach for a deal to be acquired for two points at billion in cash. the group led by canada's british columbia investment management. it is unanimously endorsing this deal, but subject to regulatory shareholder approval, the stock is sharply higher. 51%. that is definitely sharply higher stock to watch today. finally, if you fly a lot, especially into a land, this is not going to surprise you. hard l. jackson airport once again is the world busiest airport for 2017 despite a slight drop in passenger numbers are according to a trade group, 104 million pastor jackson last year. the 20th straight year the airport has claimed the honors the world busiest in probably the most annoying. the singer headlines. dagen: i will push back on the word honor. although atlantic does have a chick-fil-a in the airport. >> and an ihop. that is key by the way. dagen: really, you could ihop in atlanta? it seems like more of a sick context. senna grab and go. >> it

shares of monsanto jumped more than 6% following a report the usjustice department more than 6% followingt the us justice department would more than 6% following a report the usjustice department would approve a $62.5 billion bid to buy german drugs and pesticides company baer. it is the last major hurdle they are facing. baer declined to comment on the report but said in a statement it anticipate the closing to happen in the second quarter. the us deficit is expected to grow more than 20% this year, and reach $i billion by 2020. officials say this is largely due to the tax cuts put in place last december. they also expect that the stimulus from the tax cuts and the subsequent spending increases will boost short—term growth. however, not as much as the white house has projected. thank you for that, monaco with all the latest there. british luxury brand manolo blahnik is expanding its footprint in asia. the designer's niece took over as ceo in 2009 and has been busy opening stores injapan, malaysia, and later this year right here in singapore. 0ne malaysia, and later this year right here i

has given approval to bayer to take over monsantos that's boosting bayer shares this morning household goods, we just talked about lvmh all household goods are trading up on the back of those strong numbers by louis vuitton after the close yet. to the down side wru untutiliti. >>> switching to asian markets all the focus overnight was on president xi's speech. the nikkei bounced up 0.5% or so almost up at that 22,000 mark. so definitely want to keep an eye on that. the big moves happened in chinese indices. shanghai was up 1.7% also hang seng was up 1.6% in trading. this after more conciliatory tone coming out from president xi that buoyed up australian indices. because we had so much volatility in u.s. equities, let's see what the picture is for today. looks in line with asian bourses. in line with european bourses. the u.s. equity market is set to open up higher dow seen opening higher than 300 points s&p opening up 30 points higher. lower import tariffs and a further opening of the chinese economy were among the promises made by president xi jinping in his speech his comments come a

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regulators are about to approve buyers take over monsanto what have you heard what you can tell us aboutat. well what i've heard is that the companies meaning buyer and month central agreed to sell more assets and with that they will get the approval of u.s. authorities of the justice department to go ahead with the sixty billion plus dollar merger and we saw an immediate impact on the stock price of one cent of the stock gaining a good six per cent and there's also word out that probably of the german company u.b.s. if might be buying those essence we still do not have confirmation yet sources close to the companies breaking this story but obviously there is a pretty good chance that after the european union gave the approval through the merger last month that also the u.s. authorities will follow ahead and then this merger can be finished in the next couple of months will certainly fall that story very closely thank you very much in new york to another german giant germany's biggest and formally most renowned lender bank just scott a new c.e.o. his name is christian suing and he has be

much appreciated in the case of buy it is because we have to remember that bio is taking over a monsanto for an amount of sixty two point five billion u.s. dollars even some what some investors are saying that this even could be a little bit too big for a company even a speaker aspire to eat some cash thank you very much. in front. the european union has filed documents with the world trade organization to protest u.s. tariffs on steel europe wants compensation saying we import duties aren't really based on national security as claimed but represents safeguard terrorists which are against w t o rules in march the us imposed duties of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on a limb in him although it quickly granted temporary exemptions to the e.u. and some other trading partners but those exemptions run out soon and talks on a more permanent solution have yet come to a conclusion. well jessica jones also carbon and the crown all those are netflix original series that have brought the streaming video company plenty of new customers over seven million of them just in the first quart

company monsanto an amount that some investors even call for a company like a little bit too risky done in the open frankfurt thank you. the european union has filed documents with the world trade organization to protest u.s. tariffs on steel euro bonds compensation saying the import duty is really based on national security as claimed but represents terror. switched against w t o rules in march the u.s. imposed duties of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on a limb in him although it quickly granted temporary exemptions to the u.n. some of the trading partners but those exemptions have run out soon and talks on a more permanent solution. a few brand name symbolizes luxury glitz and glamour as well as the rates coco chanel rides hemingway and the billionaire rockefeller family or just some of many a last was regulus at the iconic hotel in paris is also struck tragically famous as the place princess diana dined that only minutes minutes before her fatal car crash now tell us of many items that no longer have a place in the renovated. beds like this were essential to the wellbei

justice department will give the green light to german pharma giant buyers take over all of monsanto that just a few weeks off the potential deal was given the ok by the e.u. commission by tends to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted that by divest additional assets as part of the deal before now goes smoothly the mega deal will be the biggest ever take over all of a u.s. company by a german one. back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel so this merger appears to finally have the green light all round despite so many concerns. yeah exactly it seems that the merger is finally now a done deal we're still waiting though for the official confirmation and yes there have been many concerns mostly many feel that by i will from now on some even say an absolute monopoly in this area so until the very end it was not clear if the merger. would get the approval from the u.s. and also e.u. authorities this was very frustrating also for shareholders because of all this issue the merger has been taking much longer than origin lee planned also

company monsanto and the amount of money that some investors even call for a company like buy are a little bit too risky and they can use the cash now very well done in cope and frankfurt thank you european union has filed documents with the world trade organization to protest u.s. tariffs on steel euro bonds compensation saying the import duties aren't really based on national security as claimed by the u.s. but against w t o rules in march the u.s. imposed eugene's of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on a limb in yemen although it quickly granted temporary exemptions to the e.u. and some other trading partners but those exemptions run out soon and talks on a more permanent solution go. that's it for me the business desk expects assuming now in germany is top astronauts is gearing up for a very important mission that's right there had alexander gassed is preparing for his next trip to the international space station in june guess is heading to the ice us with the u.s. astronaut syria now chancellor and russian cosmonaut surrogate for cook if he'll be the first german commander

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department of justice decided to improve it take over monsanto, removing that last obstacle, to the completiondeal in the industry, just last month, reminder yourself the justice department wasn't satisfied because of concerns the transaction would hurt the decision. part of a wave of conciliate -- that swept chemical crop firms in the past. shares up 4.9% at the close. ahead for double-digit for the start of the year. eight .5% estimates by analysts, , records stocking up sales last year with the company with the largest market value. benefiting china's's growth to slow 6.5 percent this year, strong sales show the demand for luxury products is still high. glencore has been a fascinating story today. by 2% up by two -- off pure the news, sanctions against russia, mean that glencore is not going to proceed with a plan to swap its stake in aluminum. also, the ceo of the company has resigned because of the measures evaluating the biggest buyer of aluminum. >> we are looking at currencies. that is one way to pull back a little bit. but it tells you the real story, that currencies like the canadian

then she became a lobbyist for monsanto.ou love the way he attacks mulvaney of lobbyist but he's done so much himself. you might say those are his staffers. he's not part of the swamp. he's clean as a whistle. he would never call him a disgrace. this shows the people who donated to his campaign. two of the sectors of the highest donations are industries he regulates as part of his committee assignments including 1.58 million from the real estate sector and 1.2 million from the estate sector. donations from lobbyist, there is no way he would go on the warpath if he did the same thing, would he? oh, look, according to responsive politics on april 25, 2017. he took a 2,700 donation from ben farms. a lobbyist. he took money from another lobbyist. on march 20th he took $500 from the another group. he took money from alpine group. a firm that includes two healthcare giants. they are both effected by the senate health committee. he took money from lobby firms. they might be interested in the fact that he serves on the agriculture a

bid to satisfy conditions set by the eu and other regulators over its long protracted takeover of monsanto the sale includes bayer's global seeds business syngenta raised $4.75 in a bond issuance last week the swiss seeds and pesticides company says funds will be used to refinance bridge loans for its 43$43.5 billion takeover by chemchina. mark patrick, the cfo of syngenta joins me on the line. congratulations on raising that money, but this came six months later than you wanted. what were the conditions that allowed you to proceed with the bond issuance this time? what has changed >> it's quite simple when we were targeting the bond in 2017, at that time we were then finalizing the u.s. litigation settlement and we were in position that we had to withdraw the pond because we were not in a situation where we could actually disclose the terms of that settlement that we reached with players in the united states. secondly at that point in time we were hopeful syngenta could take part in the m&a rising from the two large mergers that were going on in our sector obviously that's changed with ba

up european markets higher with ft up 1 1/2% dax index right now up 2 and a quarter%, revenue on monsanto course, hang seng china closed for holiday nikkei average in japan up 1 1/2% kospi korea up 1 1/4% a huge mistake from facebook ceo zuckerberg apologizing again as company reveals gardens data exposed double what company first reported zuckerberg prepares to testify before lawmakers on capitol hill next week 87 million people another day breach to report delta airline and sears warn credit card data may be in danger nunes on attack chairman of the house intelligence committee threatening legal action against fbi and department of justice stonewalling continues footage out of illinois good samaritans rushed toward scene of an accident pull man from a crash. >> riding in style what it will cost to get behind the wheel of a different bmw every month, hot stuff all those coming up joining me to break it down fox business network christina iraq afghanistan war veteran fox news about contributor pete. >> our -- >> we can put you in one for just 199.99. >> we got a lot on the table joining t