lemonis: chef dave soup in the jar, available at metro market. dave: shh! nis: that's it? dave: that's it. lemonis: what's in it? dave: grilled corn, grilled onion, roasted poblanos, grilled chicken, lime juice, cilantro, and yukon gold potato. it doesn't have any dairy. lemonis: whoa. dave: mm-hmm. lemonis: he did go back to work, and he told me he created a brand-new healthy soup for the grand opening. dave: what do you think? lemonis: that's good. maybe he's actually starting to listen. hey, great job, bud. dave: thanks. lemonis: see you soon. ♪ it's been about two weeks since i've seen dave, and i'm back for the grand opening of the new and improved soup market, and i have a feeling it's gonna look amazing. well! kevin: what's the word, man? lemonis: what do you think? kevin: i love it. lemonis: looks different? kevin: i love it. lemonis: hey, dave! dave: how are you? lemonis: proud of you, my man. dave: good to see you. lemonis: what do you think? dave: incredible. lemonis: i spent over $60,000 renovating the soup market. new floors. an entirely new fro

third, companies just won't stock market making themselves more appealing. this morning campbell's soup bought snyders lance. it went for $4.9 billion. they transformed themselves from a soup company with a bunch of despaired products in a supermarket to a snack food company. campbell's gets itself the largest share of the pretzel market. they are the biggest. two of the fastest growing potato chip brands. what a terrific compliment to pepperidge farm unit. gives them more in the convenience store. many people recommended campbell's as a takeover target. i think this move makes the stock worth buying as an earnings tory. then there is hershey's purchase of amplify, another snack company famous for skinny pop that is taking over swaths of snack food aisle. it is only $500 million company but today stock surged up 71% on this acquisition. huge premium. but hershey needs scale. i wouldn't be a buyer here. my point is that stocks can give you a phenomenal return simply over the course of a weekend. if companies won't do what is right to create value then shareholders will do it for you. on

market. i don't think they would that. but our authority is trying to make excuses for a lack of trying in our undercover investigation following the trail of ingredients for one ton noodle soup we found food suppliers operating with very little supervision and oversight from the farms. to the markets. to the kitchens. as for the fake ball of one ton noodles are tests found a number of toxic substances in the flour used for noodles there was from mel the heart which is used to preserve dead bodies but when eaten it can cause liver cancer in the mysterious white powder which we used to give noodles their bouncy texture there were poisonous metals like lead cadmium and arsenic the lab also found borax the same illegal chemical we found for sale at the additives market it's so toxic that just a teaspoon to kill a child. there are those who offer hope for china's food system. restaurant is packed daily the customers happy to have food they can trust you buy milk you have the medals or the noodles in most of the places too heavy a chemical taste the ones here though taste clean and sweet. in an industry that's become driven by profit who holds his individual stand will somehow imp

and merger news juicing the market including a couple of snack food deals out there. campbell's soup is buying snyder's that makes pretzels and the top secret kettle's secret popcorn. and hershey's is buying amplified snacks. and that company makes skinny popcorn, doing well since debuting in 2014. and now let's go to the big boards. the dow cruising higher by a couple hundred points and the nasdaq and s&p also doing well in the early going. back to you. let's get a check of traffic with gianna. >> jason brooks from k cbs radio. thank you. >>> let's get a check of traffic now with gianna franco. >> yes. we have a few things to look out for. here is westbound -- southbound 80 at 92. southbound 80 at 92, rather, a report of an accident blocking two lanes. injuries reported. slow and go conditions as a result. southbound as you work your way into hayward, here is a live look before that. the traffic is bogging down on the southbound side of 880. elsewhere eastbound 80 at mcbride looks like traffic is moving okay there. the westbound east shore freeway is where the troubles are. highway

markets for breakfast. it's nice. >> anthony: so, sopa de gallina, basically a hen soup. >> eric: si, gracias, si. >> anthony: mm. chocolate come from? >> chris: well, 45%, of course, comes from the ivory coast in africa, but we don't deal in those beans just because of political situations. >> anthony: there's this stuff, spe -- the special chocolate. >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: and which is pretty much what we're here to look at. >> eric: yes, absolutely. >> anthony: where, where, where it comes from, what's involved. eric ate some of chris's chocolate, heard about these wild cacao trees he was sourcing from in peru, and promptly got me involved in this designer chocolate bar business. i'm rather famously a guy that i don't really -- i never really gave a -- about desserts. you, on the other hand, you, you are -- you eat chocolate every day. >> eric: yeah, i love chocolate. yeah, every day. >> anthony: and so, here we are, three men and a chocolate bar. good thing for the world or exploitative opportunism? yet to be determined. what do i, after all, know about chocolate? next to freaking nothing. >> eric: it's g

soup. [laughter] betty: we are using lots of different metaphors. david: markets in the u.s.rted higher, ending a little lower, i believe. betty: let's check where the markets ended. you sawtek shares taking a big hit on the back of tax reform. some expectations it is going to hit some of the chipmakers. nasdaq closing lower by 1%. the dow a little higher. the s&p unchanged. it is not getting much momentum in asia. david: not at all, a good example is new zealand. they're market has been flat for three days, nothing happening with the kiwi dollar. have a look at the market open in sydney. the rba very much in focus. it is not about what they do, but how they say -- what they say and how they say it. we are also counting down to the markets in japan and korea. i checked, when we do the math, we're looking at the kleins. japan down. a lot of it comes back to currencies, have a look at the sterling, the euro, the loonie in the mix here. may was at lunch with juncker. canada coming out with a that failure with trade talks with china. interesting to see how this session will be sh

markets." i'm vonnie quinn in new york. mark: i'm mark barton in london. here is some of the business news in the story. campbell soupd to buy snyders. chips andkes potato snyders pretzels. snacks have been selling. her she's is buying amplify -- is buying amplify. thatrcent premium at close include skinny pop popcorn. hershey sees the deal adding to earnings in the first year. history, pinnacle is 10.ng that combines two of the largest casinos outside of las vegas. that is the latest "bloomberg business flash. still ahead, prime minister theresa may is due to speak in parliament, laying out her vision for the next phase of brexit talks. this is bloomberg. ♪ cannot live without it. so if you can't live without it... why aren't you using this guy? it makes your wifi awesomely fast. no... still nope. now we're talking! it gets you wifi here, here, and here. it even lets you take a time out. no! no! yes! yes, indeed. amazing speed, coverage and control. all with an xfi gateway. find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. ♪ monaco live from bloomberg's world headquarters in new york , i'm vonnie quinn. mark: i'm mark

markets. that is what thought. >> and just piece meal other companies unveiling delivery concepts pizza hut, campbell soup, krogerntion the meal kits that have been competing with each other now like the race, it used to be the race for your living room and now for your kitchen >> without a doubt everything on demand >> what makes amazon unique in this case, they have the massive logistic networks. uber has 2 million drivers worldwide and the technology that mapped the most efficient routes in many cities. interesting to see if some of those names go to deliver. but another kind of delivery, guys, that would be robots another pang ge in the robot revolution a robotic delivery service in los angeles today. that's part of a partnership with bravo for the new season of top chef owned by our parent company nbc universal. our whole previous discussion is moot, robots in the future. >>> apple unveiling its list of most popular albums of the year. this song along with the rest of the albam topping the list coming up 70 million in bitcoin stolen the currency starts trading on major exchanges and as we hit new records, we

market street to chestnut street, with his father. >> we walked along the side and saw people living in boxes , and newspaper, and blankets. >> reporter: after years of serving soupt saint mark's soup kitchen david wanted to do something for them. for last 10 years he spent hours in the subways around christmastime giving out card with anywhere between 20 to $100 tucked safely inside. that is how merry christmas from anonymous was born. >> i give them tout people thinking they are going to have a little bit of christmas joy where otherwise they wouldn't. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: this year erase the his funds using get fund me. one card at a time he hopes to give away $2,000 to the homeless in his community. >> you learn store business these people, one by one and you see them, you worship with them and you talk with them and you see there is a humanity there. >> reporter: how about that. >> david has faith, hope that the money he gives to the homeless is used for all of the right reasons. so far he has rised just over a thousand dollars on his go fund me page. >> so touching. if would you like to contribute he is keeping fund raising open for the holidays

markets: balance of power." i'm david westin. shery: i'm shery ahn. time now for the stock of the hour. hopping hires are shares of after news they are going to be bought by campbell souphare in cash. not a surprise. abigail: we have news of this late last week. shares of 27%, these are the details around the deal. you can see what a bullish reaction this is. g #btv 4667, a six-month chart of schneider's, and you can see around the 200 day average the represent long-term buyers, and the last thursday we had the campbell soup would buy the snack company. and up, up, and away. , its not entirely surprise suggests that some investors are truly a little surprised, $50 a share, is a solid move and relative to why campbell soup is doing this, the suit business has been sagging over recent years, there is salty snack business, goldfish, i don't feel like those. that's been doing better. , all of theseels really good salty brands are likely to be good for campbell soup and they could help the top line. that's been down about 1%. it might help bring that is higher as well. david: does this really transform the company? abigail: over the long term, it could help. in 2012, the me

soup is acquiring snyders lance. so they will get snyders pretzels and pop secret. brands is the owner of jiffy pop and hershey for $921ing amplify million. joe: let's take a look at the government bond market have some steepening, which is a little bit of a change. short-term ace -- short-term race coming down a little bit. not a ton of economic news. the real story was the risk on residualaps some enthusiasm that the tax bill is going to pass. a touch of steepening, breaking recent trends. julia: i want to show you the dollar is doing. the president often talks about the performance of the stock market this year, he doesn't really mention the weakness we have seen in the u.s. dollar. that stock is trading through today, and that's what the run-on in emerging markets. we are all over the place as far as the different stories are concerned. let's talk about south africa and what is taking place there, the election of the next leader of the african national congress. it looks like the deputy president was elected the next president. there are hopes that he will go on to lead the country if the ansi does win the next election. it's looking at one week volatility in the south african brand. it

next year the bond market is smarter than this, kelly, basically >> we'll come back to this we want to get to some breaking news corporate news right now deal news on campbell's soupennan, what's goingkel. a report on cnbc.com, a scoop that campbell's soup is in advanced talks to asquicquire snyder's-lance that this deal could be reached early next week. $50 per share. you recall yesterday we brought you some news that a potential merger could be happening. well, this is providing more details here of course, it remains possible the deal talks could be delayed or fall apart but that a potential deal would be campbell's largest yet amid industry changes and consolidati consolidation. you can read more about this on cnbc.com right now, snider esnyders-lanc. >> thank you evan, this would be the biggest acquisition reportedly that campbell's has done yet. >> yeah. >> they've done a bunch lately. >> they've not -- campbell's years ago when i was in business school, we did a case on campbe campbell's campbell's used to be like a big company that had a bright future and they've kind of last 30 years has kind of passed them by. >> the interesting thing about the snyders-l

pretty fluid market most analysts are expecting it to come off a bit in the summertime and there may be other opportunities for traders. haidi: we have seen stories, people not being able to cook soupo energy consuming in china and this shifts from quantity of growth to quality. is that a game changer in the energy space, not just for lng but more broadly? guest: for sure. when china makes these moves -- haidi: the size of the market. guest: yeah, they do it quickly and rapidly, and it's sort of surprised the market how quickly it's come into play. .robably right off of coal yet they're still a place for coal. will be interesting is whether china can replicate the lng growth we've seen in 2017 over 2018. if they can, like you say, china's size means it might almost single handedly wiped out there supply glut and might bring forward as much as three or four years the supply demand balance. haidi: what's the biggest risk for next year, then? risks are how quickly more lng supply comes onto the market. here in australia, a couple of big projects, the prelude floating project, shells coming on. if that delayed, that would add to tightness in the market. mid-2018,me on by then china com

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market, please, i believe this is the high of the -- no, not quite. we're up 222 points at 24,454. question for you, have you ever wanted a bowl of soupo get off the couch to make it or drive to the store to get it -- >> yes. stuart: yes. [laughter] campbell's is now getting into the online soup delivery service. next. ♪ ♪ i mean wish i had time to take care of my portfolio, but.. well, what are you doing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. noon? eating. 3:45? uh, compliance training. 6:30? sam's baseball practice. 8:30? tai chi. yeah, so sounds relaxing. alright, 9:53? i usually make their lunches then, and i have a little vegan so wow, you are busy. wouldn't it be great if you had investments that worked as hard as you do? yeah. introducing essential portfolios. the automated investing solution that lets you focus on your life. stuart: well, i do believe this is the h of the day so far, we're up 248, 247 now. 24,480 as we speak. by the way, campbell, they're testing online soup delivery. nicole, don't spend long on this, just tell me what's going on, please. >> reporter: listen, baby, it's cold outside. they're doing something. they've g