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Bank stocks finished last year on a tear, outpacing the broader stock market in the fourth quarter.

Visa Inc has agreed to buy privately held financial technology startup Plaid Inc in a $5.3 billion deal, the payments processor said on Monday.

Oil prices rose slightly on Monday as investors shift their focus away from easing Mideast tensions to this week's scheduled signing of an initial U.S.-China trade deal which could boost economic growth and demand.

Renault shares hit six-year lows on Monday after a media report that Nissan has accelerated secret contingency planning for a potential split from the French carmaker, the latest sign that the downfall of former boss Carlos Ghosn is roiling the 20-year alliance.

World stock markets ticked higher on Monday, hovering just below record levels ahead of the expected signing of a Phase 1 China-U.S. trade deal, although markets have yet to see details of the agreement.

U.S. stock indexes hit fresh record highs on Monday on optimism about the imminent signing of a preliminary U.S.-China trade deal as well as the start of the fourth-quarter corporate earnings season.

In just 12 days, Occidental Petroleum Corp pulled off one of the biggest hedges against falling oil prices ever placed by a U.S. energy company. It characterized the transaction as "costless" but a Reuters review of regulatory filings, market data and interviews shows that's not the whole story.

The U.S. government recorded a $13.3 billion budget deficit in December, the Treasury Department said on Monday.

Charles Scharf will make his public debut as Wells Fargo & Co’s chief executive during the bank’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, and those who have worked with him in the past say he is likely to strike a much different chord than his predecessors.

Maersk , the world's biggest shipping company, plans to focus on premium services such as cold storage and digital solutions to avoid competing with its own freight-forwarding clients as it expands in the land transportation business.

Global banks who worked on Saudi Aramco's record initial public offering are pushing for an additional "incentive fee", three sources familiar with the matter said, as they try to boost relatively low earnings from the deal.

U.S. stock indexes rose to near all-time high on Monday on optimism about the imminent signing of a preliminary U.S.-China trade deal as well as the start of the fourth-quarter corporate earnings season.

Boeing Co's new chief executive, David Calhoun, assumed the job on Monday as the U.S. planemaker battles to recover from two fatal crashes of 737 MAX planes that killed 346 people in five months and led to the model's worldwide grounding in March.

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