I'm Andrew Al Sork and co-host of Squawk Box today. I'm with Leslie Picker and Wilford Frost,

and this is Five Things to Know before the opening bell. Spotify looking at increasing prices for

its users, the company's co-president telling the Financial Times, price hikes were part of our toolbox

now. He said the changes would also come with new features.

Meantime, shares of Danish wind power company, Orsted, are plunging the Trump administration,

ordering the developer to stop construction on an almost completed project off the coast of

Rhode Island, though the company said it would continue with a plan to raise capital.

And China, Evergrand Group, delisted from the stock exchange in Hong Kong today, the company

was once China's top-selling developer but ran into financial problems you might remember

years ago and then defaulted on some debt obligations.

Currig, Dr. Pepper, will pay more than $18 billion in cash to buy Dutch coffee company,

J.D.E. Pete's Carrick,

saying the merged company plan to separate, though, its coffee and other beverage units as

soon as practicable. And reports say that Coca-Cola, working with investment bankers on options,

including a potential sale of British coffee chain, Costa.

Coke acquired Costa in 2018 for more than $5 billion to try to strengthen its coffee market offering.

Sky News, saying initial talks have already been held with several private equity firms.

And by the way, that's a topic you know a lot about it.

I like Costa coffee and those costa machines which are in airports.

Right. But they never really have taken off the way I think they were hoping for.

No, so and shout out to my colleague Mark Kleinman, who broke that story late on Friday and

also reported that it's Lazard that's been hired according to his reporting by Coca-Cola to explore

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