great plains energy will by westar energy. .51 a share in cash great plains will assume westar's debt have seen a lot of deal activity within utilities specifically. you see great plains pulling back, westar rising to 56.99. there has been activity and that's constraints within the utility industry. falling natural gas prices put pressure on profits from these companies, in some cases a transfer to renewable energy as well. there has been a flattening of electricity demand. looking at a mergers and acquisitions that we have seen, this year thus far has been rapid pace. last year there were $52 billion worth of agreed-upon deals in the utility industry, the highest going back to 2011. there has been quite a bit of activity. there has been activity and pharmaceuticals. jazz pharmaceuticals buying gain anur -- celutor to experimental medicine for blood cancer. it is $30.25 per share in cash. will be $1.79 billion for equity. it is the maker of marketing software. mark: thank you. coming up next on bloomberg "markets," the namesake brand of volkswagen plunges in the wake of the emissions

the westar energy, it is a bit of the misleading name.more of the utility business as well. more of that all across bloomberg through the day. let me get to the data check. it is sort of after a three-day weekend. rebounds near $50. a big -- the vicks showing the complacency within the markets. now 1215. caroline: we open up on this tuesday morning in the u.k., neither -- nearly every industry group down. down 2.9%. strip out the one-time items, the fx boost, and this is a company that is hurting because of the emissions scandal. money comes out of u.k. guilt, the bond market selling off as we open up after the day off on monday, and they follow u.s. bonds below us. tom: let's have a cart below the horse, horse below the -- it's have a cart before the horse, horse before the cart hour. significant disinflation under the two present level over a good four years, and a little bit of a rebound, nowhere near the overshoot that jenny yellen would speak of. -- that janet yellen would speak of. a theme for the hour. caroline, what do you have th

julie: a lot of deals that have great plainsd -- energy buying westar energy for billion.lion -- $8.6e've seen a lot of futility deals in the past year. this is the latest in that streak we have seen. there's been a flattening of electricity demand. that's why we've seen a lot of these companies teaming up. , jazz agreeing tobuy celator to get access an experimental cancer treatment. jazz down, but not down by that much. the maker of marketing software being acquired by vista equity partners. $1.79 billion. been analysts today coming out and saying there might be a competing bid for this company from a giant like microsoft or sap. some kind of acquisition of the company has been rumored for quite some time. still, quite a pop. , how dotill ahead advances in artificial intelligence could lead to janet yellen competing with a machine. that is next. ♪ david: artificial intelligence could be a disruptive force in more areas, including a central banks shery:. you can read about it in the latest "bloomberg businessweek." janet yellen be replaced by ai anytime soon? to sayink it is safe that

and guggenheim is working with westar for a deal of almost $5 billion. the bloomberg business flash. "what'd you miss?" of the out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to monetary policy. usually there are two tools to use for monetary policy, quantitative easing and qualitative easing. new study shows that qualitative easing can actually shift wealth and should become permanent. joining us from l.a. is the author of the report, roger farmer. joe: roger, thank you so much for joining us. so explain to us what the difference is between quantitative easing and what qualitative easing is and why you think the latter can be a better solution? roger: this can affect the size of the central bank balance sheet. the fed went around 8 billion to around 2 billion in the middle of the recession. quantitative easing has to do with the competition of the fed's balance sheet, so a lot of the things that happened at the beginning of 2009 is that the fed began to buy much riskier assets like securities and typically, the feds only bought short-term bonds. joe: so explain t

westar energy. the largest electric utility in the state of kansas.0 a share. >>> new survey this morning focusing on brexit fears. a third of top executives say they've spent a million pounds preparing for the consequences of leaving the eu. 7% of those polled say this they intend to relocate parts of the operation if britain votes to leave the union. this morning the ceo of coca-cola european partners told cnn his company won't leave london regardless of what happens with the vote. >> we think the decision needs to be up to the choices made by uk voters. 95% of the products sold in any one of our given markets are produced in that same market. so we -- we frankly think the british voters should decide about brexit. whatever the decision is, we'll certainly be able to deal with it. >> brexit also a point of discussion at the g7 meetings in japan over the weekend. joining us right now to talk more about it is carl guttenberg, the former germen defense minister. he is founder the spitsberg partners here in new york. >> the brexit polls indicate it's mo

great plains energy has agreed to buy westar energy for $8.6 billion. and rising operational costs.it will soon be the focus of a u.s. investigation into rate auctions for government debt a coin to the new york post. investigators -- they focus after all 22 primary dealers and treasuries. cooperating and there is no reason to believe it is the focal point of the poll. together for their annual meetings. a slowdown in demand. fill a space since january. >> thank you so much. getting bruised by mountains -- mounting signs that the fed will -- at some point this summer. you can expect that according to the fed chair. joining us now, jeff. price andady in the it is set to continue the trend we see? >> i suspect there will be a little more weakness over the rest of the year. weaknessto look at the in contests of the big selloff of the u.s. dollar earlier in the year. trade from late january to late april. we'll put since then some pressure on us this month. our view is from here, the currencies have dropped against the dollar since the end of the year. nothing like as terrible as it was