Coffee pod powerhouse Keurig Green Mountain is expanding its empire (and that of its parent JAB Holding Company) with the announcement of a $18.7 billion deal for the Dr Pepper Snapple Group. If approved by shareholders and regulators, the new company would be known as Keurig Dr Pepper – NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg and MarketWatch

The DOJ has charged 8 traders from UBS, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC with deceptive trading practices in the futures markets, accusing all but one of illegal spoofing. CFTC civil charges are also expected against the lot – WSJ and Law360 & Law360

UBS, DB, and HSBC are paying a combined $47 million to the CFTC to resolve those spoofing allegations in the metals markets – Law360

Breakingviews on what Bombardier’s recent “stunning” win over Boeing at the US International Trade Commission means for Boeing’s need to strike a deal with Embraer – NYTimes

Streetwise weighs in on the “weak dollar” controversy of last week with its own take on the dollar’s fall. The simple (though not only) explanation: “the economies in the rest of the world are finally growing again, so their currencies are strengthening. The U.S. economy isn’t improving as fast—because it was stronger to start with—so the dollar’s falling” – WSJ

Bloomberg helps us understand how GE’s failures in its power-equipment division helped shed light on the company’s accounting practices that drew SEC scrutiny last week – Bloomberg

We looked at a controversial US position on Nafta’s arbitration mechanism yesterday. Today, we’ll check in with the overall status of Nafta talks after the 6th round of negotiations, which wrapped on Monday in Montreal – NYTimes

The SEC is stepping in to put a halt to what was being billed as the “largest initial coin offering ever launched,” calling the AriseBank plan “illegal and fraudulent” – Law360

A new British government analysis dated January 2018 and leaked to the press suggests that Brexit—under every scenario modelled—is bad economic news for the UK – Buzzfeed

Meredith Corp. has named its current COO, Tom Harty, as CEO of the combined Meredith/Time Inc. media company ahead of the close of the acquisition this week – WSJ

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Make your high jokes. [And never mind that you could smoke a field of it and not get buzzed.] But hempcrete as once and future building tool is no laughing matter – NYTimes

It’s nearly so long, quite officially now, to another of my childhood staples, as the recent closure of the Blockbuster Video store in Texas leaves just one remaining location—in scenic Bend, Oregon—in the contiguous United States.  As recently as 2010, there were still 4000 Blockbuster stores in the US – WSJ