for you and me joe, we just say publicis.marie hordern, you have the french pronunciation. >> i believe it is pronounced publicis and i'm going to talk about another french company. vivendi reported first-quarter earnings. they beat estimates. the biggest driver for them has been universal music group. this bodes so well for them as they are trying to sell a stake in that record company. morgan stanley said it could be worth $30 billion. for vivendi and publicis. thank you very much for joining us. get all the latest stock stories from our equities team on your bloomberg terminal. the open less than four minutes away. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: a minute away from the open of cash equity trading. let's look at the markets. annmarie hordern is standing by. annmarie: let's kick it off with the euro-dollar. strength against the u.s. dollar. csi 300. we saw asian equities higher, down just two percentage points. oil to the downside this morning, starting off the week softer after the longest winning streak in three years. the u.s.

while publicis is buying epsilon for $4.4 billion in a push to expand the digital and u.s.sinesses the deal is the french advertising group's biggest ever acquisition. publicis said it would announce a previous share buy back as it announced the first quarter share earnings it said it had a 1.6 like for like decline they expected ad spending to ease in the second half of the year. >>> elsewhere in corporate news, hydro is trading higher and it petitioned a court to lift embargo rules. the court hasn't announced its decision. >>> and switching to autos motor entities are reportedly looking at daimler for cheating on emissions in more than it thought. daimler says it's cooperating with authorities adding it has nothing to hide. the stock is down 1% in trading. >>> and activist shareholder edward bramson has written another letter to barclays looking for a seat on the board. bramson is trying to get a seat on the board to push over a strategic overhaul barclays doesn't want to lower the cost there's an interesting dynamic going on there. >>> elsewhere, another company we've be

a good samaritan later ends up spotting the publicies and brings them inside the steer.elieved to be terrie mixings. the woman could face animal cruelty charges if she's caught. >> fans of san francisco's storied luka ravioli companies ill get tenyuppodlu's a usess started in this building you see here at the corner of valencia and 22nd street, which they have owned since 1925. >>> for many years now, it's been a nice experience having a shop like this? san francisco. >> the reason wseinng, he's facing the same issue many longtime establishments have run into, he has no one to o his business. all his children's have other interests. >>> we can expect a new street closure due to repairs to the salesforce transit center, a section of fremont street will be closed overnight from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. for a month, so crews can remove construction material. this will affect a one-block stretch of fremont between howard and mission. cracked steel beams forced the transit center to close back in september. the repair work is expected to be done by june, but there is no officia

the street was disappointed for what it can't from epsilon from publicis. little bit ofs a trepidation here now than apple has said it is going to spend a lot of money on apple arcade. what could that mean for game makers? the 10-year gilts back to 2.56%. .e saw the selling last week let's have a quick look at the s&p financials for today. we are down more than half of 1%, mainly on goldman sachs. investors punishing a little more today for some of the results. we also heard from citigroup, and that stock has been positive for a lot of the session, so we shall see how we end the day. morgan stanley coming later in the week. guy: let's get back to the foreign-exchange story and talk about what is going on there. we will get some updates on the banks in just a moment. the euro trading at a very tight range since the start of the year. however, with the eu giving the green light to start trade talks with the u.s., you may expect more volatility. after all, transatlantic trade relations not at their best. the global head -- if trade talks go badly, is that goin

shares of publicis are up. it's buying epsilon for $4.4 billion.ilon has a trove of data on some 160 million clients, mostly in the united states cat at that lant a drug company is close to a deal to buy perfe paragon bioservices. we'll keep an eye on those shares as trading picks up in the united states. >>> if you've never heard of the chemical safety and hazard investigation board known as the csb, you are not alone it's a small group of people who investigate industrial accidents but president trump has been trying to eliminate the csb for three years and inspectors have quit and some fear that's helped to lead to an explosion, a fire, and even a death >> reporter: two terrible accidents in just the month, both involving dangerous chemicals, both in texas, both may have something in common. >> on march 17th there was a league and the houston ship channel had to be closed two weeks later, an explosion in crosby, texas. one person was killed, two hurt and schools were locked down to keep kids from inhailing fumes from the fire. >> i lived here a

it is the biggest takeover ever by publicis.rding to the ""wall street journal," a deal could be announced today that would offer a 22% premium to advanced disposals closing price. the iphone will go into mass production in india this year, according to foxconn. it is a shift for the company. foxconn has long concentrated iphone production in china. india has become the fastest growing smartphone market in the world. tom: thanks so much. stephen gallo with us of bmo capital markets and martin schenker in london with guy johnson as well. it will drop -- a 400 page mueller report. it will be redacted. redacted is all the black box, right -- black marks, right? actually be will color-coded based on the reason for the reactions -- redactions. tom: ok. it will look like a froot loops or whatever. do you expect a lot of these color-coded reactions? -- redactions? martin: yes. barr has pretty much so that will be the case. but he also said that there portionssignificant that newsrooms across america will be going through full speed as

yeah >>> meantime, stocks to watch this morning shares of publicis up more than 4% they're buying marketingata company epsilon from allianz data systems for $4.4 billion. i thought of epsilon as one of those companies that gets data information. catalent is set to buy paragon bioservices. >>> looking at -- when you think about it, four days the masters, right? one stroke a day, there was like 20 guys that one stroke difference per day tiger was 13 under the next guy was 12 under. a bunch of guys 11 under think of the margin of error and how good they are. whats difference of winning and losing the master. >>> stocks have been on a run since the christmas eve selloff. will earnings eason help or hurt the rally. as we head to break, here's a look at friday's s&p winners and losers [knocking] ♪ ♪ memories. what we deliver by delivering. >>> you're watching "squawk box," live from the nasdaq market site in times square. >>> good morning welcome to "squawk box" right here on cnbc i'm not going to tell you what joe just told me take a look at u.s. equity futures right now. dow looks like it will