loreal is up nearly 2%. it's followed confirmation that the business is in talks to buy two of japan's french companies and its french stocks investors appear to have backed a cause organization, kelly, up around 4%. this is despite the hotel firm reporting a 3.1% revenue for the first quarter. let's get more on those two companies, stephane is in paris. >> stephane. >> i will kick off with loreal, ross. exclusive negotiations for the french company to sell two of its businesses based in paris. one company is specialized in skin, body and hair care treatment. it's specializing in the cosmetic aroma therapy. loreal is offering $213 million for the acquisition. the final price is still part of the negotiations with sishedo. for the japanese group sishedo, it suffered last year its first net losses in eight years and, therefore, the group has decide to refocus its forces on the most profitable part of its business, obviously. loreal is the number one cosmetics business in the world and it's a way to increase it

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loreal 2.3% today. the cosmeticsmaker coming out and saying, look, we're pretty comfort where with things are. confirmation, the cosmetics business is in exclusive talks to buy two japanese companies, as well. they've been in a pretty sweet spot, loreal. wrap up with a quick look at where we are with the bond markets. pointing out the ten-year treasury yields, 2.55% for ten-year treasuries. up bond markets here following to italy and spain. interesting thing is, italy is now yielding less than spain once again. so we're out of the yields for now. and yieldz also lower today, next treasuries, 1.82%. although that spread has narrowed just a little bit. that's it. >> thank you, ross. good to see you this morning. >>> we mentioned china earlier. ross just mentioned it. let's get to eunice yoon with more details on it. hi, eunice. >> hi, michelle. st numbers came in at 7.8%. the big question is how is the economy going to look going forward? a lot of people are talking about how the september data showed us

more expensive on the material front but there's a problem within cosmetics which is why you see lorealhere, i mentioned to you that the car registrations were good. there's two companies that still have declining sales. they are down today and let's have a look at some of the other ceos that have disappointed with their earning statements in europe. they turned positive. it was a problem. they had a recall. this is the big yogurt maker within baby formula but that was a disappointment for many in the market. record levels from any markets. individual corporates disappointing. >> shutdown is a term we're hearing as well as the european simon looks into what's happening in the u.s. >> keep buying the champagne. >> thank you. >> warren buffet was on squawk earlier sounding the alarm on d.c.'s dysfunction. here's what he had to say. >> we have been building a reputation for proper fiscal behavior with our currency, at least, for 237 years. we have become the reserve currency of the world in the process and people all over the world hold our paper. so to give up or to do anything that damag