bayer announcing a new deal with merck worth more than $14 billion. shares of merck falling more than 2.5% today but roughly half a trajectory dollars worth of deals in the works this year alone. time to whoop it up or hunker down? to charlie and melissa. >> i mean normally when you see a deal it's the sign of a stronger economy, they're willing to part with cash, acquire someone else but you have to drill down on the details. you look at bayer and merck, this could have been about paying less taxes. merck moved to by domiciled we bayer in germany, 10% less tax liability. an incredible profit right out of the gate. so you have to look into each deal. >> charlie. >> all deals when you combine two companies they look for economies of scale and tacks are clearly part of that. i've been covering m & a for a long time. i know right before -- >> that's mergers and

by bayer, not bayer by the way -- >> i think they call it bayer aspirin. >> i have heard it's bayer. >> they are the buyer. but being the buyer, in part being driven by taxes in the savings and come with if because their tax rate is lower, how much should we take away from that? >> well, in this deal, they do say that they're going to have some tax synergies, some tax savings. they will also get cost savings, about $200 million that they expect to be able to save in sippsip sipper synergies. tax issue is huge, but mostly in the pfizer in the uk.synergies. tax issue is huge, but mostly in the pfizer in the uk. >> reincorporating or doing a deal with better terms speaks to the tax issue. >> we had a guest on yesterday that said almost all of these deals are tax deals, financial engineering deals, that there are no growth deals out there, deals that will get people together in order to grow product lines or build plants and equipment. >> more streamlining. >> we're going to have the ceo of bayer on in just a moment. he may be ready to go actually right now. but the question to ask him i

bayer up one quarter of a percent, miserable. that's if we have fresh prices coming through on the feet are not. that strikes me as being perhaps not exactly up to date. an entire debate over the value of sterling. it is part of the driver for the euro going higher. the buildup of foreign reserves -- i don't think that argument holds really well. back to you, anna. david leibovitz is a global market strategist for j.p. morgan asset management which oversees $1.5 trillion in assets. what are you doing with your one and a half trillion at the moment? >> i think there's a lot of uncertainty in the market right now. that is why we haven't seen a market go anywhere so far this year. when you consider opportunities for long-term investors, we like emerging markets. the have become extremely cheap over the past couple of months. we think over the next few months we may see the next opportunity present itself in the debt market. >> we have seen so much merger and acquisition activity, would you read into that that shareholders don't see

bayer bought the unit for 14-billion dollars. it aims to become the largest over- the-counter drug maker in the world. merck shares fell 2% in trading yesterday. office depot will close at least 400 stores -- a quarter of its outlets. the company states after merging with office max last year there was an overlap of retail locations. the office supply chain has also suffers as shoppers buy more supplies on-line and at bulk retailers. office depot reported earnings tuesday that exceed estimates and backed its full year forecast sending shares 16% higher. also turning in earnings. a-i-g. shares fell 4% as the insurance giant reported a decline in operating income for the first quarter-- as catastrophe losses rose. and chipamaker nvdia sold more graphics cards for computers and gaming consoles than analysts expected. but its stock fell two-percent. analysts attribute that to due to the lack of a forecast for the current quarter.earning fell 7.1%. full results tomorrow. drivers who own a g-m car

makes it more likely that the bayer-merck swap will go through, bayer gets consumer health aspects.coppertone. it will allow bayer to be more tightly focused in their core strengths, consumer health. and not the animal aspect. >> yeah. 's one of theiser biggest mergers anyway. walk me through the merck-bayer relationship, what is it going to look like? >> this is not a done deal. they are just now, bayer is the front runner for this. you would be trading assets. has strengths in the consumer health unit. less so in the health unit. they would swap it over. merck would get that and you have companies that are more focused. that has been the story taking place in all these pharmaceutical asset swaps, mergers, buyouts, however you talk about it. we have cash and assets. that is what this deal would be about. if it is just cash, a got too expensive and one of the other suitors walked away. >> thank you very much indeed hans nichols. update on a story i broke to you a few minutes ago, package incious canary wharf. police say it is a false alarm, a controlled explosion. moving on to other

merck wants to sell its consumer care unit to bayer. will beof bayer joining us to discuss this. experience american for a european. alstom. trying to buy >> back and forth across the pond. when scour the newspapers in europe. here is scarlet fu with the front page. >> we have to start with ukraine. fighting intensifies. mark as these on both sides. russia will beef up its b lack sea fleet. ukraine desperately trying to hold on to odessa. a strategic city, which you have been pointing out -- it feels more significant to europeans. >> it is only a couple hundred miles. it is about 150 miles. you are effectively part of europe. dynamic of the story, it migrates away from the diplomacy. >> we will speak with a director about the developments. >> credit suisse may be looking it -- it could include a guilty plea and a fire more than $1 billion. credit suisse created a separate legal entity for the business. that could result in the justice department targeting just that union -- unit. you have to believe that washington is involved. >> you mentioned that the word distinction. another

bayer completed the study in 2007. in 2010, the agency reversed itself and from the study to be insufficient. tom theobald saw where it fell short. >> it consisted of putting four colonies on two and a half acres of crops, the seed treated with clothianidin. is completely disregarded is the fact that the colony upper bees, over several thousand acres, it was the key study upon which conditional registration was granted to clothianidin, and it has failed to satisfy the requirements of registration. >> epa called for a new field of study, when that may take years to complete. is epa told "earth focus" it working to develop suitable designs for pollinators studies and peer review for future pollination studies, a process that will allow the agency to pursue more rigorous testing of pesticides and other impacts on pollinators. for some beekeepers, this may be too little, too late. >> this is where epa has gone wrong, because you know, they were created to protect the environment. in the way.s gotten i mean, we have gotten

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the bayer ceo explained the move. has a very strong u.s. position. -- than actually then bayer. theur intention is to take merck products, the brands, and bring them to other geographies and with that we will create a lot of revenue synergy. >> so does this a something larger in the m&a market? only companythe making headlines. you've got pfizer, the number one in the u.s., also seeking a deal for more than $100 billion. joining me right now to discuss the mergerns for madness we have cristina alesci and jeff mccracken. what is going on? why are we seeing so many deals right now? almost like a dance that is going on. what you're seeing all these companies are looking to come together and separate, if that makes sense. they're getting out of segments where they do not have much of a dominant position. that is what mark is doing. -- that is what merck is doing. and they are trying to buy into other areas. they are saying let's get more into over-the-counter. this deal actually tells us something about valuations going forward. if you look at how much bayer paid for this unit, it i

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bayer buying a merck division.ery strong position in other countries across the world, reticular me in emerging markets and in europe, so we will take the brands and bring them to other geographies, and with that, we will create a lot of revenues. >> with more on this story, we are now joined by cristina alesci. what does this say about the people in the industry now? >> all of these countries are trying to find a way to survive in a world where they are not selling the one block after drug, like viagra or lipitor. -- one blockbuster drug, like viagra or lipitor. focus on what it is really good at and sell the assets it e, for,rs non-cor example, this unit that we have seen them sell to bayer. also, they have announced they are going to cut about 1800 people to save $1 billion, and this deal will give more about eight dollars billion, $9 billion in proceeds. what are they going to do with all of that money? they are going to focus on higher margin drugs. the head of r&d says they are going to go into biotechnology

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