Oil prices were little changed on Monday as positive comments from the United States and China rekindled hopes in global markets that the world's two largest economies could soon sign an interim deal to end their trade war.
McDonald's Corp agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California.
Gold fell for a fourth straight session and global equity markets rallied on Monday, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 hitting new highs on revived hopes the United States and China could soon sign an interim deal to end their prolonged trade war.
China and the United States are "moving closer to agreeing" on a "phase one" trade deal, the Global Times, a tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, reported on Sunday.
Brazil's mines and energy minister said on Monday it is "impossible" to say how much the privatization of state-run power company Eletrobras SA will raise, despite an earlier government estimate of 16.2 billion reais ($3.84 billion).
General Electric Co on Monday named finance head at shipper AP Moller-Maersk as its new chief financial officer in the latest top-level change aimed at turning around the U.S. industrial conglomerate.
EBay Inc will sell its ticketing unit, StubHub, in an all-cash $4.05 billion deal to ticket reseller Viagogo Ltd, the companies said on Monday, nearly a year after the ecommerce major came under pressure from activist investors to hive off some of its businesses.
TD Ameritrade has historically catered to small registered investment advisory firms, so Schwab's acquisition of TD has some advisors spooked.
Before the winner would even get a penny, $37 million would be withheld for federal taxes. Much more would likely be due at tax time.
Wall Street strategists are releasing their 2020 predictions, but with so many unknowns in the market forecasting for even just the next few months is difficult.
Louis Vuitton owner LVMH snapped up U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co on Monday for $16.2 billion in its largest buyout ever, adding America's biggest luxury name to its stable of brands.
Texas' attorney general has settled with T-Mobile Inc and Sprint Corp and will drop its opposition to a merger of the third and fourth largest U.S. wireless carriers.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his spacy Cybertruck have ignited a frenzy over electric pickups, and at least seven other U.S. automakers expect to build new battery-powered trucks by 2021.
CNBC's Jim Cramer says the mainstream media wrongly thinks that "'Xi is a great Chinese man with great Democratic leanings; member of the WTO. And we have a madman as president.'"
Charles Schwab Corp agreed on Monday to buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp in an all-stock deal valued at $26 billion, creating a brokerage giant in a market that has been ravaged by price wars.