we will see plantronics at least for now say business is normal.will continue to be a standalone company.the real question is , does this process and the fact that it has come to light draw other people in? we obviously know plantronics does potentially want to sell itself.someone has put a number on it, quite a high number. that may lure in other people who may take a look at it.it is a fairly niche company so not immediately clear. guy: thanks very much. ed hammond joining us as the talks fall apart between logitech and plantronics. still ahead, what is happening with gm. gm has been halted. we are beginning to get inklings of what major news is coming out of the company.that is what gm is trading at the moment. up 2.2%. we are going to bring you the details and have a discussion on this kind of global restructuring that gm is looking to conduct and what the indications are for its business and the global sector.that is next .this is bloomberg . ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down

estimated acquisition talks with plantronics. terminating acquisition talks with plantronics. we will get you more as we learn more. let's head to one of the topics of the past few years, brexit. theresa may has staked her authority now on getting her deal passed by the u.k. parliament after it was formally approved by eu leaders. warned there could be no renegotiation if british lawmakers voted down. kathleen hays is here. may is determined to fight this bottle and win, but so are her opponents. yvokathleen: don't count her out. this is one tough promised her. there are problems on both sides -- kathleen: this is one tough prime minister. she says she is confident she can get it through and ready to -- >> before christmas mp's will vote on this deal. it will be one of the most significant votes parliament has held for many years. it will depend whether we move forward together into a brighter future, or open the deal -- door to more division and uncertainty. kathleen: many on the european side say if there was any better deal, theresa may would have gotten it. she was stubbor

. >>> moving on to some other corporate news logitech has dropped a bit to buy plantronics.say plantronics which makes blue tooth earpieces and gaming head sets was looking to sell itself for more than $3 billion. the deal would have been logitech's largest ever acquisition. talks hit a snag over price disagreements. today you can see that the stock is up about 5% on perspective news of that takeover. >>> let's take a look at another asset class that we haven't talked about in a while but we probably should. that is cryptocurrencies we've seen a real big shocker, shocker decline there across the compl complex. you can see they're trading around 3800. we have our specialist joining us here. just looking at the numbers, i was having a look at them this morning. $700 billion is the drop in market valuation of cryp cryptocurrency across the board. another very interesting statist statistic. a year ago there were $2.1 billion worth of transactions in bitcoin, now it's $350 million a day. with that, is there any up side for this if, one, not only has there been a severe amount of

around why plantronics did not go ahead as an m&a transaction. fairly comfortable with the idea that that steel did not go through. 4% intrading up by over switzerland. i think it is important to really doesn't big events coming up with the back of the week. we have seen strong price 4% in switzerland. action but it is not been confirmed by the volume story. volume is a little like today with trading down by 20% on the volume story and that's an indication that may the market is waiting for some of the address ont like the wednesday about minutes from the fed on thursday. the g20 coming up at the back end the week. maybe the market is taking a more cautious approach for what is happening today. that is look at the european close. vonnie: the dollar index is stronger. oil bouncing back as well. helping asset classes across the board. almost a $52 a barrel. the mexican peso weakening after president trump's comments that he could close the border 20.53.ntly, trading at we have a weaker wrubel -- weaker ruble. some of these movers including european

that stock is down 15 pers perce% year to date the company said it's ended talks to buy plantronics the head sets are popular nowadays with fortnite they walked away from a potential deal due to disagreement over price. >> frank, we'll see you in a bit with trending stories. >>> meantime, we are getting started here on a busy monday. "worldwide exchange" on debt a done deal or doom deal the brexit battle. we are live in london with the details. >>> plus, incredible images out of france. protestors clashing with police over rising fuel prices using fireworks. >>> later on, a big bold call in america. the man who made that call is here on wex. (sounds of race cars) the same iot technology on the ibm cloud that helps race teams improve performance and safety. bye. girls, don't wave at strangers. can now be built into everything we drive. when you apply expertise across an industry, bye! you can put smart to work. bye! i am proud of you, my man. making simple, smart cash back choices... with quicksilver from capital one. you're earning unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere.

> shares of logitech are higher in switzerland after the company said it has ended talks to buy plantronics sources say that logitech's board walked away from a potential deal because of a disagreement over price. >>> cramer's up. jim cramer is up and about tweeting about the market at 4:48 a.m he tweeted, talk about classic bear market behavior we crater all week and then we open up huge on nothing, but because we are so over sold it is thoord let things go. i -- you know, i was sitting there when i got up look being at my phone, which i tend to do, and i was happy. i was happy. >> just seeing the futures >> yeah. i was happy. so i'm naive about -- >> rough crashes last week. >> i'm hoping in another day when we were down 250, before you know it it's 500, 600. i'm hoping it's up 500, 600. i'm naive that way i expected cramer to be -- i saw other tweets he went to gino's cheese steaks. >> after the game? >> after the win for the eagles? >> yeah. they were down 19-3 or something and they came back and beat the poor giants that needed the win. >> some giants fans may be okay with that. if you