PPG Industries increased the final offer to €26.9B for Akzo Nobel and included a break fee if the deal is rejected, putting more pressure on Dutch rival to enter negotiations.
On Monday, the White House reported that the vote for the new Republican healthcare plan is still weeks away, as no consensus over the plan had been reached yet.
A company founded by Craig Wright, who claimed to be the bitcoin cryptocurrency inventor, has been sold to a private equity company in the biggest deal that involved bitcoins.
Top officials of Trump administration would hold a briefing this week at the White House for the entire US Senate to discuss situation in North Korea.
Fresenius SE&Co KgaA, German healthcare conglomerate, made a $4B proposal to Akorn Inc, generic drugmaker to increase their annual sales by $1B in the nearest future.
On Monday, the President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Neel Kashkari said he did not agree with the idea that infrastructure spending is a key US economic growth contributor.
The outgoing French President Francois Hollande urged the nation to choose Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French Presidential Election next month.
The CBI poll of 397 producers revealed both domestic and overseas demand for UK manufactured goods increased at the fastest rate in nearly three years in the Q1 of 2017.
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for China was up 0.9% in the month of March from an upwardly revised 1.3% gain observed in February.
The National Activity Index released by the Chicago Fed on Monday plummeted to 0.08 in March from a downwardly revised 0.27 increase registered in the preceding month.
Statistics Canada reported the country's wholesale sales inched 0.2% lower to settle at $58.9B over the month of February.
On Monday, the suspected Taliban militants detonated a vehicle bomb at the entrance of the US-operated base Camp Chapman in the Eastern Afghanistan.
Ukraine started an investigation into the death of the US paramedic, who was working for the OSCE monitoring mission in the country's East and died in a car blast as it was hit by a landmine.
The Afghanistan Defence Chief Abdullah Habibi stepped down from his post after the Taliban militants attacked the military base, leaving more than 140 soldiers dead.
According to the German authorities, the statistics of registered cyber-crimes in 2016 showed that the computer fraud cases rose up 80%, which is about 83K of cyber-attack cases detected.
On Monday, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Russia had no involvement in hacking the Danish military despite the Denmark authorities had made such an allegation.
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan is going to visit the White House in the middle of May for a meeting with the US President Donald Trump amid already planned negotiations between both sides on Iraq and Syria issues.
France's far-right presidential nominee Marine Le Pen called her centrist rival Emmanuel Macron "weak" on the Islamist terrorism, saying he has no plan to protect the French citizens from Islamist danger.
On Monday, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called for an investigation over death of the US paramedic who worked for the OSCE monitoring mission in the Eastern Ukraine.
Data released by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs revealed the island's industrial production slowed in March, dropping 0.07% amid a slowdown in chemical output.
The Munich-based Institute for Economic Research Ifo reported the German business climate index surged to 112.9 points in April, hitting the highest level in six years.
The Japanese company Nikon filed a patent case against the Netherlands' ASML and German Carl Zeiss, stating that both companies illegally used its lithography technology without Nikon's permission.
The Swedish prosecutors arrested another suspect in the Stockholm truck attack investigation, the police reported on Monday, but declined providing any further details.
On Monday, the Japanese steel industry head Kosei Shindo stated he was strongly concerned about Donald Trump's steel import protectionism and would carefully observe the US trade probe launched against exporters.