demand outlet. we begin with a bshb inbev agre to a deal. >> johnson & johnson has a mixed quarter. >> and twitter raising their guidance for the third quarter but making job cuts official as well. first up, anheuser busch, inbev and miller agreeing in personal on a deal in which ab would inquire sab for $104 million. that would have about one-third of the global beer market. it's the biggest deal ever in consumer staples. the fifth biggest mma transaction in history. we'll see if if happt happens. >> it probably is going to happen at this point. a couple weeks we will have a definitive agreement what they call in the uk a rule 2.7 filing. simply giving us more details on the deal. for most peoples purposes, this deal is done. let's consider is a done deal in terms of papering. we'll see from here some of the more specifics. this then starts a process by which both companies certainly will need to go about divesting assets around the globe. one of the keys, as our viewers know, jim and i talked about it a number of times, is the joint venture that sab and tap have in molson coors. they own 58% of sab. it's been a way -- investors played the likelihood of this deal from the beginning and the belief that tap will step up, buy the 58% that sab owns, even if they pay a 12 multiple. that's one play you can see. you can see what that stock is doing. >> we've been saying that's the best way. >> as for the other way, sab is up, abi looks to be up. you are creating a behemoth. a $250 billion market value. one of the global consumer companies in the world along with unilever, nestle, procter & gamble will be abi, inbev, even though they will be divesting, again, the asset here in the u.s., miller/coors and most likely china. though we don't know yet. >> this is big. i want to point out when you see the symbol t.a.p. is up big, molson, remember when constellation brands a couple years ago was able to get modello corona, the stock was at 31. today it's at 137. mexican beer far faster growing, keep in mind that that move by molson coors, you might want to sell it. that's a huge overnight gain. that's why i've been pushing that thing endlessly. >> they will own together eight o. the top ten brands in the world. the only other beer distributors that have a close to the share is carlsburg or heineken or tsingtao in china. >> these sales have been on decline. they remind me of carbonated soda. just so we're clear on this, ipa beer is a factor. ipa is a factor. >> you mean craft beer? >> craft beers are a factor. they could make it so you could argue there is real competition is craft beers matter. >> yeah. it's not as though they're getting it on the cheap. there was a lot of back and forth here. the principles obviously hammered this thing out in a room. we talked about the importance of the santo domingo family, alejandro santo domingo, how they would be involved in getting this done. no doubt that was a part of the process here involving brito. 44 pounds, not a bad price. for his part the guy over at isi, says he expects 60 cents a share in eps secretion at abi assuming a $2 billion in synergies, and a 4% financing rate. a all of which you can say we'll see, but they did do it after they bought bud riser. >> anything that eliminates some of the competition, makes it so the price cutting is not as aggressive in the industry. it's a huge win for everybody in the segment. everybody. >> also a lesson we've been thinking about just imbnbev, th degree to which they come at the target and continue to come no matter how much it takes. they have patience. they are not perturbed by anything that may go on. the reason for timing here, we waited for this deal perhaps for deal as a possibility. certainly the financing markets play an important role. they have to be emboldened or happy by yesterday's announc announceme announcement. the fact that deal can come and borrow 45 billion, not all investment grade. these guys are investment grade. they won't have a problem with the financing, but higher rates have to figure into why they moved, when they did. it's important for their strategy. there's no doubt. the synergies start to run out on these deals, you have to do another deal, the bud deal is a number of years back at this point. >> i e-mailed you last night, i said is there a really a chance this deal won't get done? my sources in the beer industry, and they're decent, they're saying this is a must it has to happen. everybody sees the decline. i'm sorry, i know how this sounds, but not as popular as it once was in this country. >> you see it firsthand. >> except in my house? >> yes. >> there's j & j reporting a better than operating profit for q3. ref news were shy, sales hurt by the stronger dollar. also a $10 billion share buyback which was announced about 45 minutes ahead, that made some people nervous about the number. >> the stock jumped to 97 ahead. you trade in four hours on this j & j, it's just an annuity to lose money. this has been the most twisted. you don't know the tax rate. you don't know the revenues. you don't know the growth of individual products, yet will you buy the stock? >> it's back. >> it's new. >> got the black band. i like it much more. i've been wearing it at night. the wife love it. >> it's been a while since we had that on camera 1. >> look at that black, is that cool? >> it is nice. still doing its usual, which is great. helpful. a blank screen. >> you can press it. >> didn't mean to interrupt you on johnson & johnson. >> i had my rap on j & j, you went to the watch. >> the black screen, the endless black hole on your wrist sunk me in. >> can i go over the domestic semis or home runs. >> international sales, 2.1. here's the key number why the stock is down. tax rate. 20%. i was looking for 24%. j & j once again showing that you're not getting growth the way you used to. >> the quality of earnings is strained? >> bingo. you couldn't be more wrigright. >> the journal with a negative piece on lilly saying this cardio trial they ended yesterday means their premium to merck and pfizer could come in a bit. >> that story was wrong. why you own lilly is because they have the alzheimer's drug. there's not anyone in the profession who says it is for real. and they have the drug that helps your heart. this cardiovascular thing, analysts are making a lot of it. the government was happy with regenron and amgen doing their cholesterol thing. this alzheimer's drug and the diabetes drug, they may be the two biggest blockbusters between now and 2020. >> >> the $10 billion buyback, it sounds like a big number. you have to put it in some perspective. it's a yawn. >> it's a yawn not only because i had to stay up to watch the mets win, but it's another sign that we don't want -- we don't want tuna with good taste. we want good tasting tuna. >> then there's twitter confirming plans on cutting up to 8% of its work force. the company says it expects third quarter results to come in at the high end above its pry forecast, both ebita on revenue. jack dorsey with a letter to the staff saying we have made an extremely tough decision. we plan to part ways with up to 336 people across the company. this is not easy but it's right. the world needs a strong twitter, this is another step to get there. >> i love this. i don't like job cuts, don't get me wrong. people lost their job today. i think twitter was bloated. i wanted revenues up, it's been suffering, but i have to tell you this is the first sign that twitter recognizes that you can't just, you know, be part of some sort of club where it doesn't matter how you do. look. they can grow. the new products i like very much. a lot of people were at that company who may not have been doing much or involved in different initiatives that didn't work. >> bob peck has a nice chart out today. revenue per employee, lower than google, lower than facebook, ebita, $83 versus google $436. >> i know peck must love the streamlining. twitter is now showing that it was previously run haphazardly and now laser focused. i would not rule this company out. stock was higher. >> sounded more constructive on twitter than you have been in some time. >> do you look at it. >> i look at it every day. >> it's better. i've been periscoping. i'm periscoping. >> really. >> i've been running silent and running deep. >> how is that working out? >> not bad. >> no? >> a little pregame periscope. i'll do one today. >> i noticed you have a new hashtag. >> i do this thing for the street. it's so hard to ask individual stock questions and limit it. i answer them on video, i'm trying to do more of what my daughter want the me to do, the kinder, gentler jim. i put emojis, like sun glass faces, i'm periscoping today as i get spray painted, earl schibe like. >> you're getting spray painted? >> you guys are made up. i'm spray painted. >> get the little blowtorch out. >> what happens with me, i have that krylon effect. cramer. i should have my own brand. >> cramer. >> cramer. >> will keep you looking like a lemon statue. >> a tough start for a pair of airlines. later on, dell and emc's big tech deal and what it means for vmware. look at the futures. we see some red arrows in the premarket. more "squawk on the street" from post nine. hi watson. annabelle, your birthday is tomorrow. i'm turning seven. what did you ask for? a princess. and a pony. you like things that begin with p. i like pink frosting too. will you have a cake? yeah. i was too sick to have one last year. the data your doctor shared shows you are healthy. are you a doctor? no. i help doctors identify cancer treatments. i want to be a doctor someday. i can help with that too. watson, i like you. yesterday at the big board here, "squawk box" rang the closing bell to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary. on thursday squawk will celebrate with a special show, including a live audience on the plaza outside the studio on 6th avenue and 51st street. they've been giving you details on how to get tickets for that. david, jim and i will join them for some part of the morning before we get here. >> i think you guys were on "squawk box" for a long time. >> yeah, i do recollect about a decade of my life. >> kind of did that. look, really got everybody up there. >> they did. >> except for some of us. >> yes. >> happy to have been part of the history. >> absolutely. >> very happy to be here every morning. >> are you? >> yes. >> absolutely, right? >> yes. wrufrnlg >> were you happy to be in the stand last night? >> yes. were you saying something about chase utley last night. >> i would like to see the crowd more creative rather than utley -- uh -- >> giving fans the room to boo. >> i watched the tape 470 times to find a good excuse. he didn't turn the right way. see, utley did not mean to -- watch closely. >> oh, thank you, guys, for that. beautiful. granderson. put us ahead there, 4-3. >> yeah. >> two-run home run to left field. do we have the cespedes shot? that was -- that was magic. this was magic. this is magic? >> this is magic. >> this is magic. >> that was crushed. >> only question in my mind, sometimes you wonder is it going to leave the stadium? is this actually going to leave the structure? >> the offense last night was crazy. first postseason win at citi field. the cubs could clinch for the first time at wrigley tonight. >> i love baseball this year. really. very excited. >> very exciting. >> congratulations to you -- not yet. >> not yet. >> when you -- will you even say you're jinxed when you win the world series? >> the world series, we're good. >> one more, than four more, than for more. >> we had a couple of airline downgrades. jetblue cut from overweight to neutral because of weak industry pricing. american lowered from buy to hold due to fair competition with low-cost carriers. i think goldman a few days ago downgraded as well. >> i feel like we had that good number early this week from united, continental, delta coming up. we are the most overbought we have been all year. you get the s&p oscillator plus 10. i can't recall when it was plus 10 and you wanted to buy stocks. you have to let things come in i don't think selling the airlines here makes sense. i'm not going there. >> people wonder if october, as good as it's been, has been led by the likes of a ge or if it's all wynn, chesapeake and rig? >> there's a sense that the commodity producers cut back with the exception of iron. we got the numbers out of china which shows a dramatic drop in imports. i will rock your world about china. car sales were up 3% in china for year over year. there were some purchase tax cuts. but the china consumer, with that number, the export number and this number, you put that together, what starbucks is saying, nike is saying, apple, the consumer is bottoming in china. the car sales number is good. >> i remember when you said europe was bottoming, i looked at you like you were crazy. >> you laughed. >> you were right. >> you laughed at the apple watch. >> doesn't mean you will be right this time but i'm listening closely. >> i think you should. >> i am. as long as you don't call me chase. >> we'll get cramer's mad dash. look at the premarket on this tuesday. more "squawk on the street" back in a minute. it's more than the cloud. it's security - and flexibility. it's where great ideas and vital data are stored. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions from a trusted it partner. including cloud and hosting services - all backed by an industry leading broadband network and people committed to helping you grow your business. you get a company that's more than just the sum of it's parts. centurylink. your link to what's next. time for our mad dash for the morning on this tuesday. always like to set the date and time. about seven minutes to the opening bell, where we headed? >> last night sap reported a fabulous number. cloud, unbelievably good. just the regular -- just the regular business, consulting business fantastic. this is a major move. i hope bill mcdermott is feeling well. sales force will be carried on by this, too. don't chase any stock, but this was a good sign. some people were thinking after oracle reported not that great a number, sap may not be doing well. accentra doing well and cloud force. the stock a point from its high. what do you think? >> impressive. i ha why have you not mentioned oracle one way or the other? >> competition. any time you say they're losing business, they will document they're not. i decided not to throw that in there so i don't get run over by a yacht in my whaler. the oils and industrials are behind this rally. otis elevator, this is a smart call. united technologies has been going up in part because people are just loving ge. and, you know, not an expensive stock, but otis is something to worry about because china is not doing a lot of building. it's a consumer led recovery like the party wanted this. the party wanted this. the party gets it. >> speaking of yachts, puts me in mind of utx's former ceo, how is the new guy doing? >> he's not a yachter. he's fabulous. the new guy is really a united technologies guy. a tough, hard line manager who is really, i think, reinstilling the old disminute. he's terrific. if this stock gets hit, you'll want to get in it. we are not -- he's not boating. no. he's not boating. he is making engines. he's doing well with otis. i got to tell you, air conditioning good. hvac, but he got dealt a hand of weak china. that matters. they have all the elevators in the world in china otis is a tough business. we don't build a lot of buildings that need huge elevators and it's the maintenance that matters. >> the razor blade part of the business. >> oh, my. >> good business. not so much for gillette anymore. >> procter sneaked up from 70 to 75. >> yeah. we have so many other stocks to even just talk about that we have not gotten to. >> williams sonoma, restoration hardware, have you seen the video of the new chicago store? >> no. >> best trailer i've seen. >> opening bell after this. my name is peter tran. i'm a gas service representative. i've been with pg&e nine years. as an employee of pg&e you always put your best foot forward to provide reliable and safe service and be able to help the community. we always have the safety of our customers and the community in mind. my family is in oakland, my wife's family is in oakland so this is home to us. being able to work in the community that i grew up in, customers feel like friends, neighbors and it makes it a little bit more special. together, we're building a better california. we heard you got a job as a developer!!!!! its official, i work for ge!! what? wow... yeah! okay... guys, i'll be writing a new language for machines so planes, trains, even hospitals can work better. oh! sorry, i was trying to put it away... got it on the cake. so you're going to work on a train? not on a train...on "trains"! you're not gonna develop stuff anymore? no i am... do you know what ge is? >> you're watching cnbc's "squawk on the street." the opening bell in just about 45 seconds. pre-market has been decidedly weak on some less than satisfying import/export data out of china. maybe the volkswagen is beginning to have an effect in germany. >> it's interesting. i've been waiting for that. i think there are other car companies that are the beneficiaries. they had 11 million cars that sold. they won't sell as many. people have to understand the market has been up day after day after day. when it gets this frothy, you can't come in there and start buying. it's a real mistake. >> j & j the big earnings release this morning but it will heat up tonight with jpmorgan, csx, intel and others. there's the opening bell. a look at s&p at the bottom of your screen. at the big screen, eros, holding its investor day. we will talk to the chairman on squawk alley. and del restaurants on the s&p. >> a division that had been leading del frisco, the grill down 3.5%. fewer private dining events at the double eagle. you know, when i go to del frisco, it is always jammed, maybe when it's jammed don't read through the national numbers. >> there's a lot of talk about beef price coming way down. >> so the gross margin should improve. but capital grill put up fantastic numbers on the high end for darden. be careful. i thought del frisco would have had a good market, they did not. >> i'm seeing some green. we have not talked about oil and that big reversal yesterday. is that an impact? will that play out day-to-day? >> if you chart oil and the chinese stock market, the shanghai, chart ge, the industrials, oil leads everything. so, if oil goes down, we go down. that seems ridiculous for those of us who recognize when oil goes down, people have more money. when oil goes down, forget about it, that day is down. >> the iea looking for more of a slowdown in global demand, even as we start using more of it in the u.s., we start driving more miles. >> they do good work. but the work i'm doing showing a pretty dramatic slowing in the -- in places that we're drilling that were marginal. interesting how much they come down. the rig count coming down so fast. you saw some canadian shale numbers bad. we will be producing -- i believe 1 million fewer barrels per day this time next year. >> reuters has a piece saying a lot of players are locking in at 50 to produce more in '16 and '1 '17, which means the rally is suspect. >> i think reuters is off base there. eog has said some things, which you will not see. this last shutdown, the move from 60 to 39 that made it so a lot of guys took things out of circulation, it's not coming back. that's the cut back i'm talking about that will produce some rather dramatic pricing positive this time next year. may not be able to wait around for it, but the goldman $30 price target for oil will be unfulfilled. >> though you have iran coming back online with a lot. >> i think it's built in. >> you do. >> i do. what's not built in is just how the marginal players, the magnum hunters, for instance, mhr, they can't produce. natural gas producing like mad. the demand is very high. the average natural gas pipeline is 100% filled. the new oil pipelines, 50% filled. oil is in glut. natural gas is in demand. shineer will be exporting 80% of the natural gas. that's huge. i'm more bullish on that gas, not on pricing but on use. magnum hunter. we saw an interesting downgrade. the coal stocks. hold or sell there? huge number. huge number. remember, we are -- there's -- if you don't think there's a short-term peak when you have this much buying -- whiting, by to hold at morgan stanley. that's bakken. bakken is expensive because it's light crude, we were set up to handle heavy crude because we thought -- wait, they thought keystone would be approved. jpmorgan hold to sell. peabody and coal no value added. coal going away. >> i imagine you're watching ryder today? down 7% as they cut guidance for the quarter and the year. >> they do talk about some softness, but basically some issues that are involving just the mechanics that will come back. i had them on a number of times. i think they're straight shooting guys. this is a logistics company. it's not the trucks, it's a logistics company. that was shocking to me. they had been doing quite well. >> wanted to come back to yesterday's blockbuster deal, the largest technology deal of all time, at least worth about 67 billion at time it was announced, dell's inked purchase or its plan to purchase emc and vmware. emc was up yesterday. that's not the case today. you can see it's down. have m wear h vmware has taken it hard. if you own that stock going into the deal you're not a happy person, given the decline yesterday and today. yesterday they put numbers out that show the order growth that wasn't as strong as people had hoped for. i was articulating yesterday the opens and dreams of the people who put this structure together in terms of the tracking stock that dell will issue for most of it's vm stake when it completes the deal. the hopes being they will trade almost to parody those tracking shares with the common shares of vmware. in speaking to a host of portfolio managers yesterday, not one believed that will be the case. including the man next to me who is no longer a portfolio manager but everybody thinks it will trade at a discount. is it 5%? 10%? 15%? something interesting also came up here, which is -- and i made this point yesterday. you're an unsecured creditor of dell if you are a vmware tracker. dell, which is levering itself up a bit, if it were to go bankrupt, not that it's got a chance of that you're done. you're done. your equity is done. you have to add that into the mix. that said, they have 25 billion in equity. ahead of any of the debt. that is highly unlikely. but it figures into people trying to understand what the tracker will trade for and how to go about figuring that out. you're also setting up hedges. some desks were closed yesterday for the holiday in terms of where you could borrow vmware, they're open today. that's adding to its losses. what a good call. that's interesting. the papers read worse about deal, the business of dell. the insights people are getting. vmware has to be avoided. that is a good theme. >> re/code said they tried to unload the pc business to hp. >> i heard that yesterday. silverlake made calls. i find it hard to believe they were going down that road. it's a huge revenue number. still his baby. i'd like more information on that and find out what is behind that. i heard that but didn't pursue it. >> under armor losing their coo and cfo who has been a company vet for about 11 years, dickerson, leaving to pursue an opportunity outside the athletic performance area. having just made some big bets on fitness technology, my fitness app. >> yeah. i think that, you know, under armour is saying buy the stock. it was before we saw this news. i like under armor very much. morgan stanley price target goes up. let this settle. people always have some sort of nonsense. this is kevin plank's show. i'm not backing away. this is a great long-term buy. kevin blank runs a tight ship. i don't care about who leaves, as long as it's not kevin plank. >> he's the man. >> he be the man. like nike. >> if he leaves, trouble. >> if he leaves? you know -- you will need some armo armor. >> ge, we mentioned it's been on a nice run. today william blair takes it to outperform. says could double by 20/20. where have we heard that. >> ge, people are excited because it's best performing industrial of the year. a lot of people are very, very excited about the chart looks great. this is a great american industrial doing things right. including getting nelson peltz on board. >> he's on board. not on the board, but on board. >> on board. >> he's been on-boarded. >> yes. >> nelson peltz a bit of a winner. though the dupont situation, they did a scorch and burn, and they be burning. >> that stock certainly moved up the day that ellen kullman announced her retirement which is coming up now. october 16th is her official retirement day. >> you stay focused there? >> yes. we will. on ed brien. >> let's get to bob pisani. >> carl, slightly weak open, not surprising given what happened overseas. germany was week at the outset. they're still open, but mostly negative. mixed picture in asia. look at sectors. oil started to the down side, positive right now, but energy to the down side. energy, materials, industrials, this big three affected by global commodities and the global growth situation or the lack of global growth. tech and financials fractionally to the weak side. i want to concentrate on the revenues of johnson & johnson and the impact of the strong dollar. put up the currency impact, i want to show you something. reported revenues for johnson & johnson were down 7.4%. however -- that's in line with expectations. that was not a surprise. however, for our benefit -- thank you, johnson & johnson, they broke out what would have happened had they not had a weak dollar. the currency hit to johnson & johnson was 8.2% of revenue. in other words, if it was constant dollars compared to last year, 4x values, revenues would have been higher and it would have wiped out the negative revenue. this is why i'm talking about the dollar and what it's doing to these companies. by the way, this is the same situation -- i did this exact same story in the second quarter when they had an 8% hit to their revenues through currency. we have to look at impact of these companies. put up the earnings per share. johnson & johnson, despite the currency problems and despite all of the issues with revenues, they have been moving on earnings per share for a while. earnings per share have been moving up for several years and the street has been loving it. some of this has been acquisitions. earnings per share increase in the last five years. now put up the five-year chart on johnson & johnson, since 2011 the street recognized that. it's had trouble this year but all these stocks have had troubles this year. despite revenue problems, despite the dollar issues out there, strong. >> did you see fmc? another example of what strong dollar is doing to companies this is a big agricultural chemical company, two-thirds of their revenues outside of the united states, huge player in brazil and latin america. they sharply lowered their profit expectations. down 5%. citing operating conditions in brazil. the brazilian real is down 30% against the dollar. try making most of your money in brazil and then exporting profits on that. you're getting kill. that's another example of what the strong dollar is doing to american companies operating overseas. i've been asking for a little understanding about the revenue picture. numbers are down. i've been talking about the earnings recession, the revenue recession. this has been going on two, three quarters. if you add in the effects of the currency, revenues would be positive. anything out there that will help us with revenue growth in q3? telecom and health care don't have a lot of foreign exposure. we won't be concerned with the dollar impact in this group. consumer discretionary has some, but this is largely autos and home building. some retailers have some significant overseas exposure. telecom and health care will be all right in terms of the dollar impact. it's hard to get revenue growth with the strong dollar and when you have energy companies with ref news down bay full one-third. energy is roughly 10% of the weighting in the s&p 500. it used to be closer to 13% 14%, but that's the clear weight here. a bit of understanding on the dollar impact on revenues and a little understanding on what oil companies, decline in revenue is doing to the overall picture. back to you. >> thank you very much. bond market gets back to work today. let's get back to rick santelli in chicago. good morning. >> good morning. indeed it seems as though being closed yesterday, well, we missed some interesting markets. they all steam have reversed a bit. you can see there's a bit of a drift lower on the ten-year. the long end down several basis points, short end unchanged so we're getting some curved flattening. in early august if you open it up, you can see what i mean. on a closing basis, we continue to hold that very psychological 2% area if we look at bunds overseas, just a one-day chart. it looks like they're moving higher. really it's getting back hooked into the u.s. markets. if we look at the shanghai composite, it's trying to hold at some lower levels. there is some divergence today because all the equity markets seem to be cut from the same cloth. a year to date on the dax reveals a lot of fundamentals lacking today. confidence was on the weak side, that's showing up in the year to date dax. want to pay close attention to that chart. the euro versus the dollar. this starts in may, you can see an upward trajectory. range has within compressed. the issue of currencies continues to ping back and forth. in a readjustment mode after we did not get a snugging up in the last fed meeting. carl, back to you. when we come back, timothy moe, you'll want to hear what he has to say about the china slowdown. and meet the chairman of the netflix of india. that's coming up on "squawk alley." i'm here at the td ameritrade trader offices. ahh... steve, other than making me move stuff, what are you working on? 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>> live and play forever. >> is that true? >> it is. >> maybe i should pick him up. >> when he passes for 5,500 yards. >> fantasy is more important than reality for some people. >> it does seem to be that way. when i find my son rooting against the jets or giants, not really against but in a weird way, i find that disturbing. >> post getting married, i switched and said reality is more important than fantasy. that wedding thing changed my view. suddenly reality played a big role in my life. we'll get stop trading with jim in a moment. 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>> coal. >> just the continued -- >> there's so much natural gas in the country. i'm talking about the pipes. marcellus is unbelievable. this utica is unbelievable. we're producing far more than we need. you mentioned morgan stanley upgrade of kbh and toll. a lot of that is because looking at luxury specifically, not a broad housing call. >> anybody over in brooklyn looking at pure house, anybody in brooklyn are kicking themselves when they didn't buy pure house when it was announced. brooklyn real estate is so hot. the hottest market in the country other than san francisco. >> that is saying something. what's on "mad" tonight. >> we're doing series on oil, as it comes down. we're recommending the oil stocks, you can sleep at night. all over looking for the biotech thing. here go with the benihoff rumors, cancels meetings. >> it was around last week again. >> microsoft. talking about microsoft. >> i did try to check it out. i came up empty. >> me, too. >> that's to give you a little as of now. it was around last week. >> was. salesforce.com -- sales force is doing well. they had a successful dream force meeting. s&p was up, but everybody attributed this rally to mid 70s -- >> they are friendly. they're close. i reported that it was serious. they made a real offer. >> mark thinks the world of microsoft since the change of management, he just thinks sachi is a terrific guy. terrific. >> i believe it. >> i do. >> jim, we'll see you tonight. >> absolutely. >> when we come back, the china effect on the markets. weald talk to goldman's timothy m moe. good tuesday morning. welcome back to "squawk on the street," i'm carl quintanilla with sara eisen, simon hobbs, david faber. stocks soggy here, though oil reversed its losses. pay attention. we're dealing with a lot of data that's been soft around the world. earnings season going into second gear tonight. >> here we go. our road map this tuesday morning. weak china data weighing on stocks at home. goldman sachs chief asia strategist tim moe will join us live with his take. >> and the democratic presidential candidates get ready for their first debate tonight in vegas. the republicans are still trying to figure out a new speaker of the house. and also ahead, ab inbev agreeing to buy sabmiller in a deal worth 104 billion. what does that mean for this country where they'll have a 70 market share? we start with the latest out of china data overnight showing more signs of a slowdown. exports dropping 4%, imports dropping 17%. investors shifting their focus to the soon to be released gdp data. joining us is tim mow from goldman sachs. what a good day to have you in town. >> great to be on. >> investors not liking what they're seeing out of china. import numbers down 18%. you guys spinning this data positively? >> if you look at the decomposition of it, it's not as bad as it looks on the surface. it's still clearly weak. we're looking forward for the rest of the data set this week. the export numbers came in slightly above consensus expectations. the import data was weak year on year. one thing to note, that's in nominal terms. there may be a price effect in terms of oil imports. oil was high a year ago. so you get a step down in oil prices, so you need to look through to the volume of imports. >> what do you expect for gdp on monday? >> looking for 7% in terms of year on year. >> that sounds awfully optimistic. >> in terms of the base effects, that's something we think is a reasonable number. there's a continuing debate about what sort of numbers will we see that china will report versus the actual activity level taking place. we've done a lot of work in terms of looking at alternate measures of evaluating gdp, we think the economy is growing at 5 1/2 to 6%. what will be recorded is the higher number. >> you're saying don't trust the data? >> to a degree, yes. the data tends in longer term to be in line, but on a cyclical basis, the highs are high, the lows are lower, we're in the lower numbers right now soufrnlg. >> so you expect the government to make the 7% growth? >> our numbers are 6.8%. >> a week on monday the communist party sits downs to put together its next five-year plan. they're concerned about growth and they prioritize growth and say we will have massive infrastructure spending, a huge amount of investment into renewable energy. does that help me? >> not 100%. so, let me say it will be helpful for growth overall. if china conducts more fiscal stimulus in ways that are economic reducktive in terms of useful infrastructure, not japan stuff in the 1990s where they were paving river bbeds. >> even if it's in central asia. >> yeah. it's actually a clever plan. one facet of it, it will use excess capacity in china in a productive way outside of china. it's a way of using overcapacity in steel, chemicals, aluminum, smelting, in ways that are economically productive and serves to expand china's influence and serves to enhance china's trade access and trade group. there's a variety of ways china wins from this. it also helps with financing. >> is it a part of the economy that is live for international investors? >> to the extent this supports china's growth overall and mitigates downward risk of the aggregate economy which may limit risk in terms of credit cycle returns, that's a marginally good thing. >> what do you expect in terms of policy stimulus? >> we certainly are. backing up a moment. one of our -- we had a call that markets can rally in the fourth quarter. we've been calling for a tactical rally in the fourth quarter, we have time for strategic concerns in 20616 which i would like to enumerate if time permits. there are two aspects of china catalyst we have been looking for. the data will improve on a see sequential basis. we started with a pmi number on october 1st. export numbers could be better. we need a richer data set going into november to improve things. second thing, looking for more news flow from china in terms of policy stimulus from the party plan. >> fiscal or monetary? >> mainly fiscal. when you think about the avenues china has to support growth, basically currency, monetary, fiscal and administrative. we think the currency will be stable here. they won't use this as a tool to support growth. monetary, we think they will ease conditions further, but the extent to which they ease is somewhat limited. that leaves physical and administrative support. we have already seen some administrative in terms of auto sales and property. we think they're engaging in further measures to improve growth in the fourth quarter. >> thank you for enumerating. good to see you as always, especially on a day like today. tim moe from goldman sachs. one day after having the largest technology deal of all time we get one of the largest dealses of all time, the long awaited and perhaps in doubt transaction between abi and sab. they agree to a deal under which sab would be purchased by abi inbev for 44 pounds per share. there's a partial share alternative for the 41% that is owned by altria and the santo domingo family. they increase the consideration there as well. all of this started 42.15, a partial share consideration. both have come up. at this point there's a 50% premium on the close of the price. a 33% premium for those who would take that psa, which is available to all shareholders but is likely only to be desired by altria and the santo domingos who are going to want a tax-free transaction. the deal itself has to get to a definitive agreement or a 2.7 filing, has a couple weeks to go until then. will require large divest choit in the u.s. and china. sab stock up this morning, ab inbev up to a certain extent as well because of generally bullish views by many of the analysts who follow the company. let's say they begin to close 9 to 12 months from now and they realize those synergies in revenues and cost savings. sabmiller there, there was doubt would they or would they not get to the deal. in the end the santo domingo family playing an important role here with two members on the board of sab, face-to-face meetings between carlos brito and the management team at sab allowing them to come together on a price that they felt they could take to their own shareholders. tap the biggest beneficiary. that stock was up as much as 10%. why? molson coors owns 42% of a joint venture. miller with jb and expecting to buy out that 58%. the multiples that would be recorded as well. >> it's worth pointing out as a result of this deal they have a 70% market share in this country. i would love to be -- >> i think that -- this is what i'm reading from the journal. >> it includes molson coors -- >> it's going to be divested. not a doubt. >> is it a fire sale to moresls coors? >> no. >> can you imagine being in the doj this morning, they have a beer deal, they have 70% of the market. >> they're not able to grow in the u.s. the modello deal, they were trying to do that, they had to get out of that. constellation was the beneficiary of that. there's a deal between sab and molson coors that dictates how they can go about trying to figure out how to pay for that. simon, it says they have the right to go to a third party, sab does, but molson coors has the right to watch any bids through 5%. the expecttition is thation is y that. >> is it going to be a fire sale? >> because of the provisions, if they don't get the price they think they deserve, they can go to a third party. i don't know that it would be considered a fire sale. >> i think the point is that the u.s. wasn't the prize here it was africa where sabmiller has 40 different beer brands. >> and south america as well. those are the two areas, africa and south america where they will grow. >> this gives you a sense of the big players in terms of the beer market. market share, more than 50%. ab i bef on top with 21%. sabmiller in number two. this has been an industry in consolidation. is this it? is this the top? the peak of the beer -- >> some would say is this the peak of mma as well? we get this deal today. >> is it a warning sign? >> feels a little topee. >> there's nothing left. >> there's always something left. just wait. when we come back, democratic presidential hopefuls getting ready to take the stage tonight in vegas. we will go live there when "squawk on the street" comes right back. ] some come here to build something smarter. ♪ some come here to build something stronger. others come to build something faster... something safer... something greener. something the whole world can share. people come to boeing to do many different things. but it's always about the very thing we do best. ♪ [extracurricular activitiessands help provide a sense of identity and a path to success. joining the soccer team... getting help with math... going to prom. i want to learn to swim. it's hard to feel normal... ...when you can't do the normal things. 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do they go after bernie to try to cut him away? what does hillary do? the question is should she go after bernie sanders? i would be surprised. i think she's going go after the republicans. she will speak on behalf of the middle class. she will try to stay up. no reason for her to attack bernie. bernie says he won't attack her. >> do you not think all these issues that have been inflamed by the e-mail controversy, trustworthiness, secrecy, you don't see those as huge impediments to her? >> it will be interesting in the debate on tuesday night. i presume bernie sanders won't bring up bengahzi or e-mail. it will be interesting to see if martin o'malley or jim webb do orb chafee. i assume anderson cooper, the moderator, would. when i ran for vice president in 2000, i sort of inherited the clinton/gore approach to debates, which was really to focus. i worked five, six days to get ready. hillary has been doing that here. this is an important moment. bernie apparently doesn't like to prepare. just who he is. >> is your baseline assumption that she is nominated and gets elected >>. >> the republicans have history on their side. after two terms of a president from one party, the other party tends to get their presidential candidate elected. i would say that's a toss up. >> the biggest takeaway from joe lieberman's comments are that she is going to stay up. i would expect her not go after her rivals. not even to go that much -- spend that much time going after republicans, but to lay out her program, connect with voters, tell them what she'll do for them and how she'll fight for them. >> john, don't go far. joining us is robert costa to talk nor about whether house republicans will hear from paul ryan about being speaker. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is needed to convince paul ryan to put his hand up? >> ryan needs to be convinced that the conservatives in the house, the hard-liners, will not oppose him on the floor when it comes time to vote for speaker and they won't break from him on the big votes, the debt limit, government spending bill. >> how likely is that then. >> it's hard to get a political pledge inside of the house gop. ryan's allies right now are on the phone trying to get private assurances saying if ryan gets the consensus of the house behind him you can let him serve and do the job? >> if it's not ryan, then who? who do we keep our eye on? >> on the committee chairman, john klein of minnesota, jason chavis is in the race, darrell issa. look for a send steady hand who can be a calming force. >> john, warren buffett is making comments this morning at a fortune conference. he said we always thought in terms of a two-party government but now we have a three-party government and we don't know how to deal with it. what do you think? >> i think he's right. the fundamental problem that robert was talking about, getting assurances from conservatives that they cooperate with a republican speaker will be difficult to get. there has to be change on the part of those conservative members to allow governance as we've known it to take place. some people have talked about the idea of a coalition speakership where you get some democratic votes to go with most republicans. you have to say on current experience that's likely given the way our party system has worked. but it comes into range as something that will be considered if not actually realized. >> thinking about what carl mentioned with warren buffett, is it an overstatement to say the future of the republican party rests on paul ryan throwing his hat in the ring and just taking one for the team, for the party and for the country to become speaker? >> for the moment there's a crisis in the party when it comes to leadership. there's a vacuum. eventually there will be a presidential nominee, that person will become the de facto head of the party. until then the speaker of the house, whether it's boehner, ryan, they will be the head of the party. there needs to be a stabilizing force to get this party together because it's fractured. >> i'm curious about the assurances that ryan may get from some members of the freedom caucus. can he believe them? i imagine we run into debate -- >> no. >> they don't seem to be able to control anybody, any way. all that stuff goes out the window. >> the big thing is an internal party vote for speaker within the house gop. ryan's whole play now, if he wins that internal party vote, he wants to come to the floor and have all 247 republicans back him. if he can get that on the floor, he thinks he can be in a powerful position. he wants that guarantee. >> you seem to disagree, john, or seem to say he doesn't have a chance? >> my point was, no he cannot believe those assurances. those are people who are not interested in governance. john boehner was plenty conservative for the modern republican party. there are just people who don't think you need to compromise and keep moving forward on important priorities. paul ryan cosponsored a budget deal with patty murray, 62 republicans voted against it. as i said, you have to have a change in behavior. is it possible they could get all 247 republicans to line up behind paul ryan? i suppose theoretically it is. but given the agitation in the talk rye community, the paul ryan views on immigration t will be difficult. >> the stock market is interested to know if boehner can swing from the fences on xm bank, on a debt ceiling with no strings. do you see him having more latitude as a lame duck? >> not really. a lot of members say if boehner moves on big things, they'll rally against him. a lot of these major issues, debt limit, xm, probably will have to wait until the new speaker. >> robert, our thanks to you. >> john boehner doesn't care at this point whether they're unhappy. >> john harwood in vegas who will be watching the debate tonight along with all of us. we're two weeks away from the cnbc republican presidential debate. live from the unify of colorado in boulder. we'll be moderating along with becky quick and john harwood. coming up next, why soda giants coca-cola and pepsi are competing for a big investment in chobani. it's more than a network and the cloud. it's reliable uptime. and multi-layered security. it's how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions, including an industry leading broadband network, and cloud and hosting services - all with dedicated, responsive support. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you're free to focus on growing your business. centurylink. your link to what's next. beyond the big beer deal we have more news for you. cnbc can confirm pepsi and coca-cola are in talks to take a stake in greek yogurt maker kobani. this is according to a person familiar with the matter. other food and consumer companies are also in talks to take a stake. the process is managed by goldman sachs. the investment could value chobani at $3 billion. it's a private company and that does include debt. it's a figure first reported by reuters. private equity firm tpg could have its position bought out in any new investment. chobani will continue to be led by it's ceo, hamdi ulukaya to help expand and enter new product categories. expand the supply chain. chobani introduced a number of successful products like flip it has a positive ebita growth, up $200 million over where it was in 2014. pepsi and coke have been making investments. pepsi have benefitted from frito lay, it also owns quaker oats. coca-cola is buying stakes in green mountain, monster beverage, and as for dairy, it has a new joint venture with fair life, the premium expensive milk. i talked to the company about yogurt. they don't rule it out as a market they would be interested in. chobani, tpg, coca-cola, pepsi declining to comment as the talks happen behind the scenes. we know greek yogurt is hot. we know the big sodamakers are looking to diversify as they face slowing growth. >> they'll have do more than buy a piece of a $3 billion yogurt company. they'll have to diversify. it's hard to replace -- when your key product is down 7% year over year -- >> diet pepsi. >> that's diet coke. that's number two. volumes declining. trying to grow sales, by it's an interesting thing to keep an eye on. coke never said it would go into food. yogurt is semifood kind of. liquid food. >> liquid? 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>> how times change. markets here are relatively flat. we're hanging on to that strong rally that we've had for the last couple of weeks on the equity markets. oil is rebounding today. still coming off one of its worst days since september when it fell around 5%. what should you knfocus on now an investor? let's get some analysis. we have james lew joining us, global market strategist . if we learned chinese imports in dollar terms were down 20%, this market would have fallen out of bed. not today. why is that? >> i think the dust settled quite a bit. the issue this morning in terms of the import numbers from china, what has to do with imports, prifces falling around the world. what we should be focusing on is the earnings story in the u.s. we expect a bad earnings season for the third quarter being reported now. we have banks coming up soon. we do have a light at the end of the tunnel. the story around commodities being weak, the u.s. dollar being strong, those being big, negative impacts on earnings, those should dissipate by the end of this quarter. by the fourth quarter we should see a reacceleration of earnings. >> really? based on what? just run me through that again. why would earnings reaccelerate? this is not in energy, this is outside that space? >> that's right. we care about the year over year earnings growth that supports the pe ratio and supports the return from the s&p. when you look at the year over year comparisons for the fourth quarter, you have much more favorable comparisons because the effect of negative earnings from these two big macro economic drivers started in the fourth quarter of last year. on top of that, when you look at underlying trends, if you strip out energy, materials, we're seeing about a 4%, 5% earnings growth pace excluding those negative sectors, which should also reaccelerate in the fourth quarter. we know exactly why earnings were bad in 2015. those effects should dissipate soon. >> it sounds rather technical that it's fallen out of the series. let's talk about where we are on the oil market. yesterday was the day of big moves. oil inventories today and tomorrow are key. what do you say to clients about whether oil rises or falls? >> it feel like the market has bottomed and the prevailing sentiment is less bearish than it had been. at the same time i don't think we are out of the woods just yet. we could move lower from where we are. though i don't think we are likely to retest the lows in the $30 level that we had seen earlier in the year. likely more volatility ahead. >> why would we not test those in your view? >> i think that the -- we are in a very early stage of the supply/demand rebalance. as such the data has been choppy, somewhat conflicting. so we saw signs last week that the eia said that u.s. production levels have come down to 9 million barrels a day. at the same time the inventory reports continue to show increases or builds in crude supplies. the data has been somewhat conflicting. i think the market will be choppy and sideways as a result. >> james, i want to take this opportunity before we let you both go to talk about a note that came out of merrill lynch which was striking. it's from left field. but the suggestion is that next year there could be a major policy shift if we see a downturn in economies, that the likes of the united states and europe will acknowledge the qe hasn't work the and therefore embark on a fiscal stimulus that could cause inflation. he is suggesting therefore buy gold, inflation protected bonds. i'm not sure if you have seen that note, and i don't want to drag you into the work of rival houses, but the fact there could be a massive shift from monetary policy to fiscal, how likely is that? >> the push to get fiscal policy in line with supporting the economy and the world, that's been a debate that's been around for a while. you had central bankers all around the world, including ben bernanke, talking about this. our general view is that monetary policy, we would agree, has diminishing returns. at this point, after seven years of zero interest rate policy, we don't think it's helping the economy. the opposite should help the economy once rates start to rise a bit. i would generally agree that fiscal policy has not helped support the economy. but i would not be hiding in safe haven assets at this point. we think there are still legs in this economy. >> do you fundamentally think the politicians could be pushed into action of cutting taxes or running big budget deficits? >> i'm not a policy expert. i think it's difficult to get washington do things at this moment. what we're hoping for is that fiscal policy basically allows the economy to run as it has been. and the economy still is fundamentally strong in the united states. we're getting closer to the end of the business cycle but it's still looking strong. >> unemployment falling towards 5%. guys, thank you. >> thanks. johnson & johnson out with quarterly results today. once again getting hurt by the strong dollar. meg has more on that and the big buyback. take it away. >> that's right. j & j posting a beat on earnings of 4 cents. revenue was light coming in at $17.1 billion for the quarter versus analyst estimates of $17.45 billion. the company narrowed the lower end of its full-year earnings guidance by 5 cents to 6.15 to $6.20 a share. a negative impact of 8.2% for the third quarter, operationally the company sales did increase by 0.8% in the quarter. looking across its business units, pharmaceuticals is the biggest unit at j & j. that was at about $7.7 billion for the quarter, but a decline of 7%. medical devices a decline of 7%. and consumer, the smallest business unit, coming in at $3.3 billion in revenue, also down almost 8% in the quarter. they did divest their splenda business in the quarter. this is the unit that has most of the brand names we recognize like tylenol and motrin. the company also announcing a $10 billion buy back this morning. folks are worried that that means the company will back off or potentially not pursue big mma, which people say it needs to do to bring back growth. the cfo saying on the call that this in no way makes j & j any less eager to pursue those if they find good opportunities. you are seeing the stock trade down a bit today on this kind of mixed quarter. >> one reason why the dow is negative. >> still ahead, an exclusive interview with the ceo of vmware. proud of you, son. ge! a manufacturer. well that's why i dug this out for you. it's your grandpappy's hammer and he would have wanted you to have it. it meant a lot to him... yes, ge makes powerful machines. but i'll be writing the code that will allow those machines to share information with each other. i'll be changing the way the world works. (interrupting) you can't pick it up, can you? go ahead. he can't lift the hammer. it's okay though! you're going to change the world. dad: yeah, 20 something years now. thinking about what you want to do with your money? daughter: looking at options. what do you guys pay in fees? dad: i don't know exactly. daughter: if you're not happy do they have to pay you back? dad: it doesn't really work that way. daughter: you sure? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab. markets flat lined so far. consumer discretionary at the top end and consumer staples. >> like the barbell approach when it comes to the consumer. staples standing out as the worst performing s&p 500 sector vying with utilities. this despite the fact that m molson kocoors is higher. weighing the sector down, monster beverage, tyson food foods, and este lauder. consumer staples in the green. we'll see if that sticks around in terms of the end of this quarter going into year-end. back over to you guys. some of it may have to do with the action in the bond market. let's go to rick santelli with the santelli exchange. bond market back open. hi, rick. >> absolutely, thank you, sara. i would like to welcome my guest. thanks, glenn hager, for taking the time. >> great to be with you. >> 1975, disco, bell bottoms, a ban on oil exports. a lot of time has passed. a lot of things have changed. i know that the house passed a bill to allow exporting of energy. what is going on in the senate, glenn? >> as we watch the senate, hopefully they'll pass the export ban and lift the ban. it will be tens of thousands of investment, billions of dollars worth of investment here, not only in texas but across the nation. we could see up to 900,000 new jobs created in the united states by the year 2020. the 1970s was a long time ago. it's time to lift this ban and move into 2015. >> when it comes into the business of oil exportation, there's a couple issues. many refineries in this country are not calibrated for the new technologies like fracking. the money will be big. is that another reason to allow exports to potentially finance an infrastructure update? >> absolutely. our refineries in the united states have been designed to bring in exported oil, not for the type of oil we produce in the united states. it only makes sense that we're able to export oil, bring in the old that we need, just like we do with the trading economies around the world. this, again, will bring tens of billions of dollars of investment, mean money back in consumers pockets, lower prices at the pump. and it seem s ironic that we're pushing for an iranian deal that would enabilile them to export , create jobs and we're not willing to create them here in the united states. >> just from a foreign policy perspective, it seems to me that the middle east is not getting cooler, it's getting hotter. should there any type of glitch, though it seems like terrorist cells refrain from the jackpot of energy infrastructure, it's possible. will we find ourselves on the wrong end of updating at the wrong time in history? >> it's a real concern for myself as chief financial officer here in the state of texas that we can see a significant increase in activity in the united states, create jobs, and have them here domestically and locally where we have oil supplies to trade back and forth. with all the activity in the middle east it makes more sense to lift the band a and move forward. in the 1970s it made sense. it doesn't make sense 40 years later. >> glen, thank you. always interesting to hear your perspective. up next on the program, another huge deal today. ab inbev finally getting agreement to buy sabmiller within the brewing industry for $104 billion. the combined company would have about a one-third share of the global bear mer market. unless they sell some assets, 70% market share in this country. where is the market now? we talk about that next. st fortune's most powerful women's conference today. warren buffett, mary bara. militia obama speaking and another powerful woman in the corporate world, irene rosenfeld. our kate kelly is there with highlights. importantly, this was the first time we've heard from her since bill abbingman announced that stake. >> that's right. it was very interesting to hear what she had to say since that $5.6 billion announcement. she didn't really give us a lot of color on any other discussions with abbingman other than to say he has not asked for a seat on the board. activists generally, she spoke about nelson pelz and said it was tough to come to the decision to invite him to be on the board, but that he had been a constructive member. mentioned also as i said that abbingman had not asked for a board seat, but said also what has to engage with activists, you don't do that at your own peril. let's hear more about her words on activism in general as it applies to her company? take a listen. >> you have to engage with your shareholders. i spend a great deal of time with shareholders in the course of the year, and we have to listen to what they have to say. they're making significant investments in our stock, and in the case of activists, i think one chooses not to engage at their peril. i think in some cases the nature of their holdings does not justify the loudness with which they speak. >> you know, she was so diplomatic. it was impossible to tell whether that last line was a reference to abbingman. although, of course, it could be given his style, sarah, but interesting comments nonetheless, and she said they're focused on margins. there's more to come on that. they see stagnants basically in europe and asia and the foreseeable future and controlling margins is one way they can combat that. >> i think that was more blunt than we usually get. >>. in the meantime, the world's two largest braers, inbev and sab miller agreeing on a deal for one to buy the other for just over $104 billion. such a combination would have a one-third share of the global beer market. here with more analysis carolyn levy, beverage analyst with slsa. carolyn, welcome to the program. where is the value for shareholders? now we've had had the share price moves. what's next? >> i still think you have 11% up side. it may take nine to 12 months. i get modela took about 11 months, but it can have to -- there was a second offer. obviously you've seen tech move tremendously. >> obviously the difference between for this on the table is it's part cash, part shares. if those big shareholders, the one that for tax reasons want to go forward. there was a suggestion, though, people will go initially for the -- on for the cash offer, and then they would have to buy back ab stock anyway moving forward because a lot of fund managers will have to benchmark to it whether they like it or not, and, therefore, ab stock will rise, to the point that maybe you're making there. >> yes. i think that is a very interesting point. this has been a management team that's delivered so much value over the last decade that it is one that you probably want to bet on going forward. >> pepsi could lose out here because ab has been a bottler for pepsi in brazil, which is the second largest market for them for many years. no one is going to be as strong as ab in distributing pepsi. >> carolyn, i had a discussion about the fact that clearly together they have a very large market share on paper now in the united states. 70%. therefore, need to sell out of the joint venture with molson. molsen stock is up 25% since the deal was announced. further up side, whatsoever a sale will that be to other assets that have to be sold in this country? >> there probably is further up side in tap. i don't officially cover it. based on what consellation sold from its windfall acquisition from ab's last deal, i do think that tap is lots of sin erj ji opportunities, efficiency opportunities. the other sale that must take place in our view is the sale of the china joint venture with snow back to china resource enterprises, which is government run. >> is that plain sailing in china. >> i don't think anything is plain sailing in china. there are lots of groups like the costel group in africa. there are a lot of t's to cross, i's to dot, but if anyone can do it, ab can get it done. >> is this the end of the beer consolidation story, or is there anything left? >> i guess you might think that ab's final move would be to go off to coca-cola, in which case i guess it's the end of the mega mega deals, but i would never say deals are over in beer. i think we'll see a lot more smaller ones. you are seeing tons of kraft acquisitions, for example. >> it's been a pleasure talking to you. thank you for your naltsz. carolyn levy joining us. >> let's go to john fort with a look at what's next on squawk alley. hi, john. >> twitter layoffs. how are they going to do that and grow at the same time? we'll dig into that. also, reid hoffman, the entrepreneur and top investment. here are comments from him. pat bellsinger will join us to talk about the dell emc transaction. what it means coming up. all that and more coming up on "squawk alley." big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. 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