| | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed sharply higher on Monday, with the Nasdaq ending at its highest level since September 2000, as upbeat data from China boosted optimism about the health of the global economy. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn said on Monday he would no longer pursue efforts to block founder Michael Dell's proposed $25 billion buyout of Dell Inc, determining "it would be almost impossible to win." | | | | | | | (Reuters) - Privately owned Koch Industries will buy Molex Inc, a maker of electronic connectors for companies including Apple Inc, for about $7.2 billion to give the billionaire Koch brothers a way to diversify from their traditional holdings in energy, chemicals and paper. | | | | | | | NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - The owners of Neiman Marcus Inc agreed to sell the U.S. luxury department store chain to two private investors for $6 billion, almost $1 billion more than they paid for the company in 2005. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co's board, under fire for the bank's trading losses and myriad government probes, said on Monday that it was adding two directors and handing more power to its lead independent director, steps that give it extra supervision over Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon. | | | | | | | HOUSTON/CARACAS (Reuters) - Malaysian oil company Petronas is exiting one of the biggest petroleum projects in Venezuela's Orinoco belt after disagreements with state-run PDVSA, sources close to the venture told Reuters. | | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications set pricing on the $14 billion bank loan backing its $130 billion acquisition of the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless that it does not already own from Vodafone Group Plc , sources told Thomson Reuters LPC. | | | | | | | MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - The prospect of nationalisation looms large for Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena now that the beleaguered lender needs to raise more than twice as much capital as originally planned to meet new European Union requirements. | | | | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - Rain and cloudy weather is forecast for Bombardier Inc's flight test site for much of this week, casting doubts over the date for the first flight of the Canadian company's all-new CSeries jetliner. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co and a major insurer have agreed to a $300 million settlement to resolve accusations that they forced homeowners into over-priced property insurance and entered into kickback arrangements that inflated the policies' prices. | | | | | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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