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behind the rain forest cafe and gumpegum trip bubba shrimp. we are clearly going to have a great morning, we have breaking news on one of my favorite subjects, activist investing. a big update, the drug company behind botox and those implants, people with knowledge of the matter say that the drugmaker activist are in town to buy the company for $60 billion, higher than a hostile offer from another pharmaceutical company, valiant. the bid, of course, is backed by bill ackman. either way.ll wins this is true. look at what is happening with activist shares. they have a high stock price, rising, but of course we want to show you what is happening with allergan. it would be a $60 billion deal under discussion here. we have to draw a distinction, activist is a drug company, ergan look at the stock, both of them today, bill ackman remember, he has come out aggressively against senior management at allergan. now that he has to change his hat and simply be an allergan ....
market makers on bloomberg television. i am erik schatzker. i am stephanie ruhle. i m here at the nasdaq at the founder summit. this brings in great names like aero and oculus, and the bankers to represent them including goldman sachs and blackstone. p are hot. is stephanie, looking forward to it all. on assignment not too far away in midtown manhattan this morning. in the meantime, the month-long feud between ebay and carl icahn appears to be over. this will give him confidential access to the company, and he has withdrawn his demands for a paypal spinoff and 2 seats on the board. i spoke to ceo john donahoe in the morning, who characterizes this as a win for shareholders. i asked him, why give carl icahn anything at all. what he has done is seeing the potential in the opportunity in our company. so he is becoming a long-term shareholder, which i think is a win-win. and dave dorman is coming on as an independent director. an independent director that i respec ....
for final senate passage next week. some people say it is not much of a deal. today in the u.s., late today at 8:30 a.m., we get pti numbers. santacon in 300 cities and 44 countries. kids, teens i ve seen people in their 20s dress up as santa and get their party on. get drunk. an estimated 30,000 participated last year. snow is expected tomorrow in new york city. i think people who participate in santacon won t mind the snow. let s do a data check. i m going to go through this quickly. after threenced ugly days. yield moves higher. indivisibility of 3%. weaker euro, weaker yen. onto the next screen. currency movements. vix elevated. this is that risk on the economy doing better. deal as welly a big go into the weekend. weaker currencies, dramatically weaker australian dollar. really on the support of the australian dollar hanging on by a thread. what a night beginning with the twitter block story, the north korean story. we need to get too busy front page. l ....
NASHVILLE — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced the appointment of Jeff Rader as Special Judge in the Fourth Judicial District for Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson, and Sevier Counties. ....
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