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Good Monday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Cantonia with Jim Kramer, David Faber at the New York Stock Exchange.

Solid futures to start a holiday shortened week, thanks to constructive China trade headlines,

some $60 billion in formally announced M&A involving Schwab, TD, Tiffany, Novartis, and more.

Europe is steady, 10-year 178 pal does make some remarks later on tonight.

Our roadmap begins with Megadil Monday, LVMH confirming a deal to acquire the iconic jewelry brand Tiffany for 16.2 billion.

Plus, Charles Schwab is buying a merit trade. It's a $26 billion all-stock deal.

It will combine the companies. The two biggest publicly traded discount brokers would have more than $5 trillion in client assets.

And eBay set to sell off Stubhub in an all-cash deal for nearly $4 billion.

David's got details on that.

Let's start, though, with this historic deal in luxury goods.

LVMH will acquire Tiffany for $16.2 billion in cash.

Deals worth $135 a share.

Two companies expect to complete that deal by mid-2020.

And David, I assume you can fill us in on what's going to happen to the brand, synergies, and all of that.

You know, listen, I mean, it's an important transaction for LVMH, which has tried twice before, is my understanding, and not been able to get there, had done it privately.

From a M&A strategic point of view, this went about as well as sort of it could have been hoped for from both sides.

You had seasoned advisors on both sides who I think guys thought they would get to a deal,

even though you started at 120, ended at 135.

Obviously, you know, not bad in terms of an additional premium, but something certainly that you can imagine that Bernard Arnaud,

the man who's created LVMH, is happy to live with. There had been an expectation initially that

this company wanted its all-time high, which would have been about five bucks higher. You knew

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