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Oil futures finish higher on Monday, as reports that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked Saudi oil facilities lifted tensions in the oil-rich Middle East. Support from sizable progress in European efforts to vaccinate against COVID-19 also offset some pressure from a global rise in cases of the virus.

A new report estimates that Las Vegas Raiders fans spend more money than any other NFL fan base.

Caregivers are crucial to the nation’s infrastructure and need business and government support.

The Iranian government alleged on Monday that Israel was behind a blackout that followed an explosion at the Natanz nuclear site, with foreign minister Javad Zarif threatening to “take revenge against the Zionists.”

Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown took aim at the man who defeated him, saying lobbying for any commercial purposes brings “public service into disrepute.”

Gold futures on Monday head slightly lower, potentially extending a retreat after bullion scored its biggest daily gain in month last week.

Cybersecurity giant Darktrace has announced plans to float in London, in what will be the first major test of investor appetite for tech listings following Deliveroo’s disastrous stock market debut in March.

U.S. stock-index futures on Monday head modestly lower in a week that will see the unofficial start of first-quarter earnings, headlined by some of the nation’s largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group.

Ant Group Co., the financial-technology giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, will apply to become a financial holding company overseen by China’s central bank, overhauling its business to adapt to a new era of tighter regulation for internet companies.

Cannabis deals in Europe will help pot giant Aphria build up a war chest ahead of an expected frenzy of M&A in the U.S., the company’s chair and chief executive told MarketWatch ahead of the group’s earnings on Monday.

Shares of Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. surged more than 5% Monday in Hong Kong trading, after the e-commerce giant was fined a record $2.8 billion by China’s antitrust regulator.

CEO pay surged in 2020, a year of historic business upheaval, a wrenching labor market for many workers and unprecedented challenges for many leaders.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Sunday said “it will be a while” before the conditions are in place for the central bank to tap the brakes to try to cool the economy off.

In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” the Ohio Republican, who resigned from Congress in 2015 amid a GOP power struggle, said the rise of Republican idealogues has changed the party — and the country — for the worse.

Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit.