Hewlett-Packard said a strong performance in China and improved profit margins in its services business helped drive quarterly earnings 14 percent higher.
General Motors will present a plan to European governments to save struggling carmaker Opel within days, a rescue set to cost 3.3 billion euros ($4.9 billion), those involved in talks said on Monday.
Tyson Foods posted higher-than-expected quarterly results on Monday on strength in its beef, pork and prepared foods businesses, which it expects to continue in its new fiscal year.
Global stocks began the week in the green Monday, with gold prices hitting a new record high above $1,167 an ounce. Experts told CNBC risk aversion is coming back despite the rise in shares.
Lloyds Banking Group got strong demand for a 9 billion pound ($14.9 billion) bond exchange, an indication of possible appetite for the UK bank's record share issue due to price on Tuesday.
China Longyuan Power Group, Asia's largest wind power generator, plans to raise up to HK$17.1 billion (US$2.2 billion) from a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), sources close to the deal said on Sunday.
Industrial Bank, a mid-sized Chinese lender, said on Monday it would raise up to 18 billion yuan ($2.64 billion) in a rights issue to boost its capital adequacy ratio.
Australian building materials maker James Hardie Industries says full-year earnings would meet the top of market forecasts as the U.S. housing market, the core of its business, hits bottom.
European Union regulators have extended their review of plans by U.S. software firm Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems for $7 billion, giving Oracle more time to tackle concerns the deal may be anti-competitive.
General Electric and Vivendi are at least $1 billion apart in their valuation of the French group's stake in NBC Universal, the Financial Times said on Thursday.
Japan Airlines may have to pay about $1.1 billion to settle derivatives transactions, a newspaper said, but the struggling carrier said it did not expect to face such a charge.
The state-owned Korea Development Bank (KDB) will "aggressively" consider buying Korea Exchange Bank a media report quoted KDB CEO as saying, in his first public expression of interest in the domestic rival.
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