Alphabet delivered another quarter of outsized revenue growth late on Monday, though Wall Street’s fixation on the profit margins of the Google parent capped its share price bounce at around 1 per cent in after-market trading.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly endorsed Mike Pompeo as secretary of state following a fraught session on Monday, paving the way for his speedy confirmation likely in time to attend a Nato summit on Friday.

Higher gold prices added shimmer to Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s earnings though lower output weighed on the company’s revenues.

Whirlpool’s 2018 is off to a soggy start, after the US-based maker of large appliances reported earnings from the past quarter and guidance for the current one that fell short of analysts’ expectations.

Nine people have died and 16 were injured after a van struck pedestrians on Monday afternoon in Toronto, police said.

US stocks were mixed on Monday as tech stocks suffered and the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined for the fourth straight day. However, rates were the big story of the day.

Alphabet delivered another quarter of outsized revenue growth late on Monday, though Wall Street’s fixation on the profit margins of the Google parent capped its share price bounce at around 1 per cent in after-market trading.

The rise of online shopping keep taking its toll on brick-and-mortar retail. 2018 looks to be another peak year for store closures on a square-footage basis, according to analysts at Credit Suisse.

Those who were hoping for the Mexican peso to bounce back following last week’s sell-off were left sorely disappointed on Monday.

Rising US borrowing costs and the longest winning streak for the greenback this year have put emerging market assets under pressure, with equities and currencies down more than 1 per cent and on track for their biggest one-day drops in at least weeks.

Box, a California-based cloud storage and file hosting business, zoomed higher on Monday after reports that it had been flagged as a top pick by venture capitalist and ex-Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya.

Angola has hired banks for its first international bond sale since securing IMF support for a programme of economic reforms earlier this month.

A profit warning from Clarkson gave the shipping broker its biggest daily fall in 25 years. Just over a month after saying there were signs of recovery in ship financing markets, Clarkson said clients were once again postponing transactions.

The London Metal Exchange has fired a broadside at high-speed traders with plans to end an incentive programme that allowed computer-driven funds free access to its market for six months.

UK home secretary Amber Rudd on Monday made the most concerted effort so far to draw a line under the scandal over the treatment of the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants, announcing a package of measures to help them, including an independently administered compensation scheme.

Louis Dreyfus Company, one of the world’s biggest traders of food stuffs, is reorganising its top management team as it looks for new growth opportunities in a rapidly changing market.

Investors pulled a volte-face on Monday, wiping out early losses in Hasbro shares after the US toymaker blamed the Toys R Us liquidation for disappointing revenues and a quarterly loss but said that the figures did not reflect the health of its underlying business.

Stocks were flat and Treasury yields are higher on Monday morning as investors juggle corporate earnings, takeover activity and the outlook for inflation.

Brussels has opened an in-depth investigation into Apple’s purchase of Shazam on Monday, delaying the iPhone maker’s $400m deal for the music-recognition service.

The hedge fund led by Sears chief executive Eddie Lampert is offering to buy some of the troubled US retailer’s best assets, a break-up plan aimed at helping shore up its balance sheet.

A jolt of drama has struck the industry that provides engineering and construction services for the world’s energy sector.

Luxembourg’s Subsea 7 disclosed on Monday that it made a $2bn proposal for McDermott that is contigent on the US group dropping its planned tie-up with Chicago Bridge & Iron Company.

A fight over the board of Newell Brands between billionaire investor Carl Icahn and activist fund Starboard Value drew to a close on Monday, after the two agreed to a deal that would put three new independent directors on the board of the $13bn consumer goods company.

Kimberly-Clark shares rose in pre-market trade after the company boosted its sales forecasts for 2018 following encouraging growth in its personal care and tissue products during the first quarter.

However, the company’s first-quarter earnings were weighed down by charges related to a previously-announced restructuring programme as well as the rising cost of inputs.

US stock futures crept higher on Monday, as investors focus on the 10-year Treasury yield, which is approaching 3 per cent, and a new batch of earnings from the likes of Halliburton, Hasbro and Kimberly-Clark.