Coke ver cusus pepsi, one firm,e 35 billion deal webetween omnim and publicis. Far from the only deal. Saks is going to be bought and the battle over Pharmaceutical Company elan ends with a big bid from perrigo. The second half of earning season, hertz and wynn in focus. The hertz ceo will join us as well. Help wanted at amazon. The Company Announcing today it is adding more than 5,000 jobs across the United States. First up, deals involving highend retail and pharma in the fix today. The biggest deal u. S. Based omnicom and publicis group, a merger of equals. The new Company Worth 35 billion and will be the Worlds Largest advertising firm. However, the deal is expected to face intense regulatory scrutiny. Live with the ceos of omnicom and publicis later on squawk in the street. In addition, perrigo and elan and saks and hudson bay. Merger monday . Yes. Yes a merger monday. Got to go there. Thank you. Welcome. Dont believe it is that is it a sign of things to come. Certainly theres a p
The cost is eye popping. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for monday, july 29th. Good evening, everyone. Big dollars pouring in to big deals today with three multibillion dollar mergers, two of the Worlds Largest advertising agencies agreed to merge. France will create a new ad biamus. And the scale and power to better compete for digital ad space. Also today, a big deal in the Luxury Retail space. Canadas Largest Department store chain, which already owns lord taylor is paying about two and a half billion dollars in cash for saks 5th avenue. The company will have 320 stores in some of the biggest cities in north america. A mega pharmaceutical merger, perago is paying for alon corp. , opening the way for it to move to ireland for much lower tax rate and to expand into italy. A smaller deal to tell you about, Sinclair Broadcasting group is buying eight abc affiliates along with a 24hour cable news channel in washington, d. C. , for just under 100 billion. The current
Stocks . Youre being hit with unexpected fees, its legal, and the cost is eye popping. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for monday, july 29th. Good evening, everyone. Big dollars pouring in to big deals today with three multibillion dollar mergers, two of the Worlds Largest advertising agencies agreed to merge. France will create a new ad biamus. And the scale and power to better compete for digital ad space. Also today, a big deal in the Luxury Retail space. Canadas Largest Department store chain, which already owns lord taylor is paying about two and a half billion dollars in cash for saks 5th avenue. The company will have 320 stores in some of the biggest cities in north america. A mega pharmaceutical merger, perago is paying for alon corp. , opening the way for it to move to ireland for much lower tax rate and to expand into italy. A smaller deal to tell you about, Sinclair Broadcasting group is buying eight abc affiliates along with a 24hour cable news channel
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick and this morning i am in a suburb of omaha ham, nebraska, called la vista. Joe kernen is back at cnbc headquarters on the east coast. Our special guest this morning is Berkshire Hathaways Warren Buffett. Weve been soliciting your questions for mr. Bust over the last several days and as always, he he didnt disappoint. You have emailed, tweeted, facebooked and shared your thoughts on linkedin. Before we get to that, joe is going to give us a quick rundown of the mornings top headlines. Hey, beck. I know the sequester is hitting everybody hard, but this is your new set up there with the boxes and the usually we can splurge a little bit more. This is affecting everyone, i think. This it is. But this was a purchase. Berkshire never gave any numbers on this, but it was reported that this was a purchase of about 500 million. Whoa. But it was what we twauts the companys most recent acquisition. He s
Good morning. The days top stories, the battle of the bull as is s p comes off its first weekly loss of the year. On the global front, european markets are trading nervously amid election uncertainty in italy. And in hollywood, argo stormed to a best picture victory at the oscar hes. Its monday, february 25th, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. I thank everyone on the movie, worked on the movie, did anything on this movie gets thanked. I want to thank canada, our friends in iran living in terrible circumstances right now. I want to thank my wife who i dont normally associate with iran, but i want to thank you. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Were watching the u. S. Equity futures at this hour and right now it looks like there are some green arrows. You can see dow futures up by about 50 points in fair value. S p up by just about 7. Joe mentioned the oscars. He was very excited about this. If yo