| | Oil prices edged lower on Monday, pulling back from early gains fostered on strong Chinese economic news and ongoing supply restraint from major oil producers. | |
| U.S. airline executives on Monday pointed to concrete signs of a domestic leisure travel recovery as a slowing pandemic drives spring and summer bookings, pushing shares to their highest level since the coronavirus crisis hit the sector a year ago. | |
| Digital payments giant Stripe's value soared to $95 billion after it capitalised on a boom in ecommerce with a round of funding that pushed it past Elon Musk's SpaceX as the most valuable U.S. startup. | |
| Spain's BBVA on Monday said it would seek the approval from its shareholders to reduce the bank's share capital up to 10% to carry out a previously announced share buy-back. | |
| Wizz Air's largest shareholder, Indigo Partners LLC, is planning to sell up to 400 million pounds ($555.56 million) worth of shares in the Hungarian low-cost airline, Barclays Bank said on Monday. | |
| Wall Street climbed on Monday, with the Dow hitting an intra-day record high, as investors awaited cues from the Federal Reserve this week amid caution over rising borrowing costs spurred by massive fiscal stimulus. | |
| Colombian softgel maker Procaps S.A.S. is in talks to go public on Nasdaq through a merger with U.S. blank-check company Union Acquisition Corp II in a deal which would value it at more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. | |
| Rogers Communications Inc said on Monday it was buying Shaw Communications Inc for about C$20 billion ($16.02 billion) in a deal that would create Canada's second-largest cellular and cable operator but might attract stiff regulatory scrutiny. | |
| Thorntons, the 110-year-old British chocolatier and retailer, said on Monday it would permanently close all 61 UK stores, putting 603 jobs at risk, blaming the impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. | |
| (This March 12 story corrects paragraph four to say JD.com is China's biggest e-commerce company by revenue, not 2nd-biggest) | |
| The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) mistakenly paid out $692 million in duplicate small-business pandemic relief loans because of technical errors and other mistakes, the agency's internal watchdog said on Monday. | |
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