a foreign acquisition by a german company chemicals group by a has just sealed its takeover of us monsanto it was sixty three billion dollars and makes by an even bigger global player the name monsanto will disappear but its products remain including the controversial weed killer round up of contains the chemical plant site. it took almost two years but it's finally done with its purchase of months on to buy a becomes the largest agra chemical company in the world. it holds just over thirty percent of the global market that's ahead of the chinese swiss firm came china syngenta which has just over twenty eight percent then it's the u.s. business dow dupont with seventeen and a half percent b.s.f. controls about thirteen and a half percent of the global market you know other words just five corporate entities will determine the direction of global agriculture and the nutrition of humanity this while the world population grows ten billion people by twenty fifty according to current estimates because farmland isn't increasing it's up to these five firms to figure out how to coax more out of th

traders have been waiting for but environmentalist's have fought so hard against germany's by the us is monsanto creating the globe's biggest player in the chemical sector while the new company control the world's food supply one day. europe's top football leagues flex their financial muscle scoring another season of record revenues. and all dressed up with nowhere to go in the eyes move or reach the. it's a rocky road and there's a status symbols made in germany. this is the w. business my name is gallo it's the largest ever thought of causation by a german company chemicals group by a has sealed its takeover of u.s. seeds maker monsanto is worth sixty three billion dollars and makes by an even bigger global player the name on sun toll is said to disappear but its products remain including the controversial weed killer round up which contains the chemical glass as it. it took almost two years but it's finally done with its purchase of months by a becomes the largest agra chemical company in the world. it holds just over thirty percent of the global market that's ahead of the chinese swiss firm

german pharmaceutical giant and the company has announced that it will be shedding the monsanto name one which used to make headlines as thousands of protesters hit the streets across the globe. i think. that's right the fact that monsanto will. longer exist there will be inheriting each and every lawsuit that taps the company around four thousand of them in the u.s. alone on top of that approximately two thousand legal hearings are still pending and one of the biggest trials to come this month is based on accusations that the company had bet its products could cause cancer for decades. at the center of all of those lawsuits monsanto's leading herbicide round up and its main ingredient like the fake according to the international agency for research on cancer it's called probably carcinogen a human their study has also found strong evidence of a link between life estate exposure and lymphoma. you know david what provokes me about monsanto is that it can sell as poison year after year nobody cares what provokes me is that there is only us here today monsanto has been implicated in the scandal in var

company has taken another major step towards the planned acquisition of us agricultural giant monsanto the u.s. department of justice approved the approximately fifty six billion euro deal on condition that buyer divest about nine billion dollars of its agriculture businesses the deal would make buyer the world's supplier of seeds and protection products. shareholders may be excited about the deal but the merger isn't going down mental activists. management has come to an agreement with its workers council over restructuring plans for the automakers german factories the number of job cuts will be capped at less than four thousand and on a voluntary basis. fifteen thousand. protection from layoffs until twenty twenty three and return employees agreed to defer a negotiated pay hikes the carmaker has been in the red for the past twenty years. the e.u. parliament has approved a labor reforms designed to protect posted workers the revised rules are designed to keep workers coming from other e.q. countries from being exploited and paid lower wages from mid twenty twenty a same pay for equal

make a will close its largest ever foreign takeover on thursday it's buying up monsanto the largest us producer of genetically modified seeds and cultural chemicals and the german giant is hoping to strengthen its portfolio in the health and nutrition sectors with the acquisition but given monsanto's legacy that may not be so easy so american explains. one of the world's biggest brands and most controversial are cultural companies monsanto will soon be through this as we know it will be bought out by bayer the german pharmaceutical giant and the company has announced that it will be shedding the monsanto name one which used to make headlines as thousands of protesters hit the streets across the globe. bit. like the fact that monsanto will no longer exist bayer will be inheriting each and every lawsuit that tops the company around four thousand of them in the u.s. alone on top of that approximately two thousand legal hearings are still pending and one of the biggest trials to come this month is based on accusations that the company hid that its products could cause cancer for decades. a

what provokes me about monsanto is that it can sell its poison year after year and nobody cares what provokes me is that there is only us here today one since there has been implicated in the scandal in various ways court documents released last year showed that monsanto manufactured scientific study and derived scientists to publish them but at the same time the company claims that ground up is. glacier site based herbicides supported by one of the most extensive worldwide human health and environmental databases ever compiled for a pesticide product. monsanto's new owner has provided assurances that the merger would make things right as they are great here but if our aim to deepen our dialogue with society we will listen to our critics and work together where we find common ground agriculture. ideological differences to bring progress to a standstill. you're talking about progress to try and find a new herbicides that simply hasn't happened and they may have reached the end of their life if you're talking about progress to try and convince americans and the rest of the planet that roundup is safe well they've been doi

german pharmaceutical giant and the company has announced that it will be shedding the monsanto name one which used to make headlines as thousands of protesters hit the streets across the globe. i think. the fact that monsanto will no longer exist bayer will be inheriting each and every lawsuit that taps the company around four thousand of them in the u.s. alone on top of that approximately two thousand legal hearings are still pending and one of the biggest trials to come this month is based on accusations that the company hid that its products could cause cancer for decades. so. at the center of all of those lawsuits monsanto's leading herbicide round up and its main ingredients like the safe according to the international agency for research on cancer it's quote probably carcinogenic to humans their study has also found strong evidence of a link between like the state exposure and lymphoma. you know what provokes me about monsanto is that it can sell us poison year after year nobody cares what provokes me is that there is only us here today one since there has been implicated in the scandal in v

johnson's cans sneer johnson's suit is one of 4,000 filed against monsanto and its use of the main ingredientundup and other monsanto weed killers. while epa and other hundreds of health organizations have deemed it safe to use, a 2015 report by the world health organization toys it's probably carcinogenic. >> monsanto says the science is junk science. >> reporter: rikki klieman says it's a high-stakes case being closely watched by both sides. >> this one is the bellwether because if in fact this plaintiff wins, that creates real momentum for other plaintiffs. >> reporter: johnson's suit also accuses monsanto of covering up potential dangers of the pest side and fails to warn users. chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. >>> medical researchers say they have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer. dr. jon lapook has the details. >> put your nose in my finger. >> reporter: 61-year-old debbie puffer has been a patient at duke university since 2014 when doctors began treating her deadly brain cancer glioblastoma with a most unlikely weapon, polio virus. at first, she was skep

acquisition by a german company german chemicals group by a is finishing its takeover of us seats giant monsanto today the deal is with sixty three billion dollars and its turns buy into the industry giant the name on santa will disappear but its products remain insists that months on tools crop protection technology and genetically modified seeds are vital to feeding a growing global population. it took almost two years but it's finally done with its purchase of months into bio becomes the largest agra chemical company in the world. it holds just over thirty percent of the global market that's ahead of the chinese swiss firm came china syngenta which has just over twenty eight percent then it's the u.s. business dow dupont with seventeen and a half percent b.s.f. controls about thirteen and a half percent of the global market you know other words just five corporate entities will determine the direction of global agriculture and the nutrition of humanity this while the world population grows ten billion people by twenty fifty according to current estimates because farmland isn't increasing it's

he is first in line to go against monsanto. he used round up 30 times a year. his case will go before a jury this week in state court. his lawsuit alleges monsanto covered up the dangers of the product for decades. thousands across the country are suing the company. monsanto says the herbicide used in roundup is the most tested in history and it most likely is not a cancer risk. >>> the latest west nile infections are being seen in southern california. health officials in the center area are concerned. they have to confirmed cases of dead birds found in santa clara county. tomorrow night and wednesday morning, vector control trucks will spray in parts of santa clara. the spray is not harmful to humans or pets. people should close the windows . they weren't that westmount can cause flulike symptoms. in wear symptoms, meningitis. >> i am scared. we just moved in a year ago. i see the birds all of the time in my yard.>> i do not think much about it, but it is mosquitoes, right? they are dangerous and not good for you. i do think about it, mostly for my kids. >> hea

that monsanto's crop protection technology and genetically modified seeds are vital to feeding a growing global population. so fishman secure our financial correspondent on wall street is joining us now hi sophie it's very good to see you know wiping away the name monsanto really get rid of the problems and the bad reputation associated with the company for a bunch. of it is highly unlikely but it's very clearly what bae is trying to do i mean the name one fans who have been the f.p.u. tellme of evil per basically read the entire century of companies had to be draining farmers this drawing the environment or poisoning our food so it looks like a buyer is spending a lot to possibly inherit a bad reputation when launching this takeover bid of buyer promised it would not introduce genetically modified crops in europe experts are still warning buyer is going to feel the impact of this bad reputation by association because some of the brand names which will become part of the new portfolio draw almost as much controversy as the parent company and buyer is not going to change the thing fell the danger of a knock on effect is real and could potentially damage fate of the stock price of

he says his use of roundup at his job caused h >>> jury selection is underway for a case against chemical giant monsanto. a man is suing the company and says his use of roundup at his job caused his terminal cancer. julie watts is live in the san francisco courthouse with more on the high-stakes case. julie?>> reporter: yes, this is one of many cases linking cancer to a chemical in the weedkiller roundup but in this case, time is of the essence, the plaintiff may not live long enough to hear the verdict.>> mister johnson is dying because of these decisions made by monsanto. mac it's shaping up to be a case of he said she said.>> the issue will be whether mister johnson's exposure to like us eight, a name you will hear -- to this chemical, and amy were here -- a name you'll hear often.>> reporter: he couldn't make it to court for jury selection as lawyers laid out their cases. the groundskeeper is dying from non-hodgkin's lymphoma and blames the corporate giant monsanto.>> his cancer is not the result of genetics or bad blood.>> reporter: they link his cancer to continue to? closure to an active ingredie

using a popular weed killer. ahead, attorney rikki klieman on what a trial against corporate giant monsanto means for thousands ofrow, jonathan vigliotti takes us to a land before time with real dinosaur hunters. >> this is a real jurassic park. it is, it is. e're on scotland's isle of sky where you can literally walk in the footsteps of keou here tomo "cbs this morning." https: global stock markets fell . >>> we have an update. some of the top head lines including union city. police and three suspects exchanged gun fire in union city. at least one suspect is injured. officers are okay and the suspects are in custody. >>> a group of counter protesters involved in violent clashes at a protrump rally are celebrating victory more than a year later. five. them were found not guilty of assault. a jury found them not guilty after an hour. >>> a 2,500-dollar reward is offered for information leading to arrest of a fire bug in santa rosa. an arsonist set 13 fires on saturday night. we will have traffic and weather after this. . >>> we are tracking slow downs. we are still in the yellow. little under 30 minutes heading no

you know david what provokes me about monsanto is that it can sell its poison year after year nobody cares what provokes me is that there is only us here today one sensor has been implicated in the scandal in various ways court documents released last year showed that monsanto manufactured scientific study and derived scientists to publish them but at the same time the company claims that round up the. glacier site based up the sides supported by one of the most extensive worldwide human health and environmental databases ever compiled for a pesticide product. monsanto's new owner has provided assurances that the merger would make things right as players right here pick out the aim to deepen our dialogue with society we will listen to our critics and work together where we find common ground agriculturists. ideological differences to bring progress to a standstill. you're talking about progress to try and find new herbicides that simply hasn't happened and they may have reached the end of their life if you're talking about progress to try and convince americans and the rest of the planet that roundup is safe well they've been doin

monsanto and the best trial lawyers of the world. >> reporter: lee worked for the benicia unified school district as a grounds keeper regularly using roundup on the job. he was healthy when he started back in 2012. now he's one of 4,000 people across the country who filed suit against monsanto saying roundup gave them cancer. >> monsanto will stipulate they never warned anybody about it. mr. johnson made safety decisions based on the label. >> reporter: the general public will see this and probably have roundup in their home. should they feel safe using that product? >> absolutely, they should. >> reporter: scotpar partridge is vice president for monsanto and said he's symp or the plaintiff's position. >> reporter: glyphosate is the main chemical in roundup. the epa said it likely does not cause cancer. the state of california said it is carcinogenic. lawyers on both sides offered up conflicting studies imploring reporters to take them as fact. this trial may inform this truth. lee's lawyers just hope he's -- may form lee's truth. lee's lawyers just hope he's around to see it. >> it's day to day for him, but he's here today and i'm

when bear bought monsanto, that name will disaperiod. most of us know baer for its aspirin. known for its seed but also has a bad reputation for creating genetically modified food and creating agent orange during the vietnam war. baer will drop the monsanto name but keeping the money- making chemicals used by growers all over the word. >>> shareholders of toyota are expected to discuss a proposal to -- shareholders of tesla are expected to discuss a pro a proposal of dropping chairman elon musk. >>> time is 7:25. facebook is pushing back against reports in the new york times that it gave information about users to other companies including google, microsoft, samsung and other companies. facebook says that the deal allows device makers to offer pop lace features including messaging, life touch. they get information from not just users but their friends who never agreed to data sharing t facebook says that data sharing fell under approved privacy policies and were not aware of any abuse. >>> more and more americans are post boning retirement to stay in the work force. there is

using that product? >> absolutely they should. >> reporter: scott partridge is the global strategist for monsanto and said he's empathetic for mr. johnson, but -- >> there is no science that supports the plaintiff's position. >> reporter: while monsanto is on trial today so is the truth about glyphosate, the main chemical in roundup. the epa said it does not cause cancer. the state of california says it is carcinogenic. lawyers on both sides offered conflicting studies imploring reporters to take them as fact. his lawyers hope he's around to see it. >> it's day to day for him, but he's here today and i'm glad and i hope he's here to hear the verdict. >> reporter: because of lee johnson's dire health circumstances, the court has agreed to expedite this case, so this could wrap up in less than one month. live in san francisco, susie steimle, kpix5. >> that trial is in san francisco superior court a few blocks away. a federal judge is presiding over another trial involving the popular weed killer. that federal trial includes hundreds of lawsuits filed throughout the country alleging the chemical causes cance

. >>> jury selection in the case of a man from venetia who is suing monsanto, the maker of a weedkiller. he said used'ma the lawsuit is been heard in state court in san francisco. it alleges that monsanto covered up the dangers of the product for decades. thousands of people across the country are suing the company. johnson's case was allowed to go first because he is dying. monsanto says it's the most tested in history. and maintains that it does not cause cancer. >>> 6:25. for diabetics, there's a new long-term monitoring system to measure your blood sugar levels. the fda approved the glucose monitoring system mother is known as cgm. it's for adults with diabetes. it uses a small sensor. it's implanted just under the skin. to measure glucose levels for up to 90 days. now, a light sensor since information to a mobile app. cgm is already approved in europe. >>> delta airlines is now facing a the airline says it will bands all pit bull type dogs from traveling with customers as service support a delta is citing safety and security of its employees and customers after reports of flight attendants being

monsanto. >> reporter: he worked for a school district, using round up on the job. he was healthy when he started in 2012. now he is one of 4,000 people across the country who have filed suit saying that round up gave them cancer. >> the company will say they haven't warned anyone about it. mr. johnson made safety decisions based on the label. >> reporter: the general public will probably have round up in their home. should they feel safe using it? >> absolutely, they should. >> reporter: scott is vice president of global strategy. he said he has sympathy but. >> there is nothing that supports his position. >> reporter: while they are on trial so is the truth about the main chemical in round up. the epa said it likely doesn't cause cancer. the state of california says it does. lawyers on both sides offered up conflicting studies, asking reporters to take them as fact. the trial may inform this truth. lee's lawyers just hope he is a round to see it. >> he has hung tight the whole way. it's day to day for him. he is here today and i'm glad and i hope he is here to hea

insists that monsanto's crop protection technology engineering modified seeds are vital to feeding a growing global population. there are financial correspondent on wall street is joining us now hi sophie it's very good to see you now will wiping away the name monsanto really get rid of the problems and the bad reputation associated with the company for. all that is highly. unlikely but it's very clearly what bae is trying to do i mean the name one fan to have been the epi tome of evil for basic revie entire century a company had to be draining farmers destroying the environment or poisoning our food so it looks like a buyer is spending a lot to possibly inherit a bad reputation when launching this takeover bid the buyer promised it would not introduce genetically modified crops in europe experts are still warning buyer is going to feel the impact of this bad reputation by association because some of the brand names which will become part of the new portfolio draw almost as much controversy as the parent company and fire is not going to change the length of the danger of a knock on effect is real and could potentially damage the fate of the stock price of buyer is well th

monsanto and the best trial lawyers in the world. >> reporter: lee worked for the benicia unified school districts as a groundskeeper regularly usingndup on the job. he was healthy when he started in 2012. now he's one of 4,000 people across the country who have filed suit against monsanto saying roundup gave them cancer. >> monsanto will stipulate they have never warned anybody about it. mr. johnson made safety decisions based on the label. >> reporter: the general public will see this and probably have roundup in their home. should they feel safe using that product? >> absolutely, they should. >> reporter: scott partridge is vice president of global strategy for monsanto. he said he's empathetic for mr. johnson but that -- >> there is no science that supports the plaintiff's position. >> reporter: while monsanto is on trial today, so is the truth about guy foe glyphosate, the main chemical in roundup. lawyers on both sides offered up conflicting studies imploring reporters to take them as fact. this trial may bring out the truth. >> it's day to day. it's day to day for he's here today and i'm glad and i hope he's here to hear the

us mere mortals. after we learned there would be replacing monsanto in the s&p 500 last week. years ago twitter was a troubled company and one that was run by -- abuse someone or overwhelm them with spam nobody likes an unpleasant experience so the company struggled to grow its active user basis. this is when dorsey realized we need to clean up the platform. the most objectionable comments get buried at the annual meeting a couple of weeks ago, he explained how twitter is learning. and he did it, hcleaned up the platform at the same time twitter finally figured out modernization. for example, they started a data license business where they organize your public information in real time to make it easy for the public to consume. i think the former cfo deserves a lot of credit too. put it all together, the margins are so much better, it is staggering so how about square? this is more of a straight up growth story square started out making these credit card readers, but since they expanded, they lend money to their clients and why not they know exactly how much money these busines

monsanto is to blame for not warning the public about roundup. lee worked for the benicia unified school district as a groundskeeper regularly using roundup on the job. he was healthy when he started back in 2012 and now he is one of 4,000 people across the country who have filed suit against monsanto saying roundup gave them cancer. >> monsanto will tell you they will stipulate they have never warned anybody about it. mr. johnson made safety decisions based on the label. >> there is no science and there is no medicine that supports the plaintiff's position. >> reporter: that is the vice president of global strategy for monsanto, who defends the chemical glyphosate the main chemical in roundup. the epa says it likely doesn't cause cancer. the state of california however says it is carcinogenic. some of those conflicting studies will certainly be key to this case. live in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. the main part of the trial after jury selection starts next week. live in san francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. >>> sexual assault is happening more often midair. now the feds are stepping in. kpix 5's jessica flores is at oakland international

bayer is hoping to finalize the $63 billion deal by dropping the monsanto name but keeping its moneymaking chemicals used by growers around the world. >>> shell oil will pay a settlement to the epa for hazardous waste violations at its refinery in martinez. the settlement includes a $142,000 civil penalty and a $220,000 in quitman improvement fee. this stems from apa complaint saying the refinery did not manage and report hazardous waste materials. is part of the settlement, shall will upgrade the area where hazardous materials are managed. >>> it is a big day for everyone who likes to use emojis. 150 new images are being added on smart phones and social media platforms. there are faces with red hair, superheroes, back guys, cupcakes and bagels. everybody likes to text food. for some reason, a mosquito has been added. it brings the total number of emojis to more than 2800. >>> shareholders at tesla are due to me today. it may be a hot meeting. shareholders are expected to talk about a proposal for an independent director to serve as chairman of that company, instead of elon musk. elon musk is also expect

us if you get. such. going to. come the germans came together in one nation from the money to chancellor all telephone booths monsanto and the history of the germans has been shaped by great rulers and nice well for ways to bring my royal college of fashion to protect christendom and spread the truth of the phone a week before they could be full of the enemy and tom up and steered by courageous decisions for the free must follow the slave clint's the germans every week on. but. facebook is at the center of another privacy scandal this time over it sharing of user data with device makers such as apple amazon some sun and others over the past decade without the users explicit consent also coming up a world addicted to plastic on dwelt environment today we look to asia the region's booming economy stomp more plastic into the seas than the rest of the globe combined. welcome to the business so did mark zucker back hide the truth when being questioned by the e.u. recently he said that everything you share on facebook you own and you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it but an article in the new york

to connect with supporters the way he has love him or hate him, his use oz politics in the old days all of this was true for monsantoat is now become old school and twitter is new school when you take a step back, the assent of twitter is amazing a little less than a year ago stock was at 15 bucks. with first salesforce taking a run at it largely because of its big data possibilities now though twitter has turned into a fast growing earning story that is too big for all to swallow. advertisers wanted an alternative to facebook. so it's out with the once thought of as new gmo makers and in with social media new, the revile is bio tech media company. let's go to kevin in ohio. >> caller: booyah from cincinnati snap, and i want to have your viewpoint on how it is going in the future and what you suggest the long position. >> i have a corporate governance conference i am doing onursday n wrestling for recommending snap because i think it has growth ahead of it, but no votes for the people who buy the stock, and that i can't get marms around but it does have momentum starting right now we just witnessed the first generat

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synonymous with global average capitalist greed the monsanto brand now the name will now disappear from the market by a will continue to make the us giants herbicides glyphosate which only narrowly escaped the e.u. recently by some to cause cancer but studies are contradictory and for now the jury's still out. if only by itself and as a correspondent is in frankfurt what are the prospects for the new company. well they have some major challenges ahead financing doesn't seem to be one of them up when you talk to observers they say it's a solidly finance company and there is a challenge though in degrading the company that may sound trite when you bring two together but big mergers have failed before time there chrysler is one such example which was hailed as a marriage in heaven by the participants when it was formed it turned out to be exactly the opposite it's just difficult to get two cultures together and to make something like this work on a grand scale basically from from one moment to the next and the other challenge is you mentioned the word accurate capital that's the connection with monsanto while the monsanto name will d

against monsanto.t dwayne johnson was grounds keep and he used it about 30 times a year, while he suffers from nonhodgkins limona ma >> monsantond-up is the most tested inistory ncer risk.s most likelca not a that's despite thehemical being listed as a possible carcinogen by world hlth organization >> recently warnings about them chemical health officials at the fda. >>> the supreme court will consider whether peouye who iphones can sue apple over allegations it has an illegal monopoly on the sale of aps.aw the originsuit claim that is when a person buys an ap, the price includes a 3% markup that goo apple >> apple argued it didn't sell aps but acted asntn imediate year, they initially won in a lower court which dismissed the lawsuit >>> mcdonald's stop using plastic straws in britains replacing them with paper os and considering a change in the u.s. >> most plastic straws wind up in the ocean,ng endan birds andfe wildli one steady said birds and s ma'am mels die each yearrom eating or getting tan in plastic waste. >>> no change in the weather it will be another hotone. >>> hot and humid sticky conditions later on this afterno

well monsanto has had a bad rap as you as you as you point out for a very long time they're the fellows who brought us agent orange they brought us d.d. t. and they are such a bad player is attacking with their lawyers organic farmers really through no fault of their own for having their own roundup ready seed alone on to their fields the big problem right now however is bliss of fate which is the chemical which has been put into the roundup ready crop the g o saw a and wheat they are promulgating and corn so they are in trouble with the world health organization that says the glass of fate will cause cancer with the state of california and there are many lawsuits in the works and just because the brand has changed the liability is staying the same so they are still facing that same kind of liability through in europe to the european union is against it russia is against it a lot of your putin does not like the g.m.o. seeds so there is still a lot of headline risk for these guys i should add though bart i should add that bear themselves were the ones who brought us drug called heroin they were the one

used in iphones and ipads. the companies are doing that it's deal with apple did not -- will propose a 63 million dollar with monsantohelping to fund its trnsferred -- its transformation into the biggest maker of agricultural chemicals. that is your latest bloomberg business flash. it is time now for the stock of the hour. company shares absolutelymeting, shares down the worst ever since the company went public in 1994. abigail, why abigail: it is a larger biopharmaceutical company. they are developing a pipeline of drug candidates for other companies goo explain this if we hop into the bloomberg and use the financial analysis. this is about 65% of the company's overall revenue in orange. of that, a big chunk of it goes to other companies. down here, it looks insignificant but it is a growing chunk. we have bayer and astrazeneca developing drugs. drug, a have a cancer -- their response rates in patients were not on the mark. vonnie: that is extraordinarily disappointing. the investigator from the yield cancer center on the study believes that the results are going enough to move to the final stage. the chief scientif

join us later on as we speak to the chief executive of bayer as the company completes the takeover of monsanto>> let's look at how the u.s. futures are shaping up in the early session. dow is seen opening up about 50 points higher so s&p about six points higher. of course it has been a very strong couple of days for tech stocks and nasdaq is opening ten points higher. that's it for today's show. >> "worldwide exchange" is coming up next >>> good morning here are your top five stories at cnbc global headquarters. breaking news out of london. the stock exchange now returning to normal after a technical delay delayed the opening. >>> warren buffett and jamie dimon is calling for an end to a widely used wall street practice. >>> president trump talking trade with the japanese prime minister at the white house today. >>> carl icahn reportedly building a stake in one well known company. >>> and why an rv maker is sending a warning sign about the economy. it's june 7th and "worldwide exchange" begins right now ♪

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critic of us president donald trump and he might run against him as a democrat not have any stores and the german chemicals group by its very close to finishing its takeover of u.s. seeds dried monsanto the sixty three billion dollars buyout is set to close on thursday by is ditching the name monsanto though it's been a target of protest lawsuits for idiots that months on top. products will keep their names like roundup which contains the controversial herbicide life percent by insists that monsanto is crop protection technology and genetically modified seeds are vital to feeding a growing global population. that's a lot to talk about with a man of the frankfurt stock exchange only the fire monsanto deal is worth sixty three billion dollars it's the largest ever foreign takeover by a german company our investors are following the final finishing touches right to the end. yes they sure are especially as it's involved with a capital raising issue buyer has of course incurred great debt low interest rates that seem as it seems is a favorable time to aid in the financing of this huge sum that it has to shoulder for the takeover but it also is issuing new shares and that's a relatively ne