IBT Staff Reporter

Oil rose to 2-1/2-year highs on Monday, with Brent crude pushing above $120 a barrel on geopolitical risks to supply along with expectations of growing demand after last week's supportive U.S. economic data.

Fast-food chain McDonald's Corp announced a one-day spring hiring spree aimed at fighting the use of the term McJob as shorthand for describing low-wage, dead-end work.

Celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Snoop Dogg and Josh Duhamel all got slimed on the stage at the Galen Center

Deutsche Boerse will wait until bid target NYSE Euronext responds to a rival approach from Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange before considering raising its own offer, sources familiar with Boerse's thinking said on Monday.

A nascent recovery in global dealmaking, focused on safer deals with clear strategic logic, probably marks the start of several years of rising mergers and acquisitions, senior bankers told the Reuters Global M&A Summit.

Pfizer Inc has agreed to sell its Capsugel unit, the world's largest maker of hard capsules, to private equity firm KKR & Co for nearly $2.38 billion.

The S&P 500 met tough overhead resistance on Monday as traders saw little reason to push up stock prices in the face of lingering geopolitical uncertainties that have weighed on equities recently.

Charlie Sheen did not have a warm welcome when he kicked off his one-man-show tour in Detroit. The former Two and a Half Men star was met with boos during his performance Saturday night.

A slideshow on top upcoming and on road electric vehicles by major automobile manufacturers in U.S.

Cash-rich Belgian chemicals group Solvay SA is betting on emerging markets exposure and specialty chemicals with a 3.4 billion euros ($4.8 billion) cash bid for French group Rhodia SA .

With the improvement, the camera joins multiple significant additions expected in the next iPhone.

NASA delaying the launch of the Endeavour because of a scheduling conflict.

North Sea Brent crude oil hit a 2-1/2-year high of almost $120 a barrel on Monday as unrest in the Middle East and North Africa kept the focus on oil supplies as economic growth bolstered demand for fuel.

The Financial Times wants to keep selling subscriptions for its digital news directly to readers rather than surrender control of new customers who sign up via Apple's iPad, the managing director of FT.com said.

Homebuilder Beazer Homes is moving into the used homes business, starting a new division to buy recently built houses that it will rent out in a depressed U.S. housing market where many people are having trouble qualifying for home loans.

Stocks were little changed after a higher open on Monday, with the S&P 500 facing levels where selling has clustered in recent sessions.

Vodafone's exit from France's SFR marks another step in the revamp of its portfolio and reflects how Europe's telecom giants are ditching weaker assets to achieve scale elsewhere ahead of a wave of big investments.

Minmetals Resources <1208.HK>, China's biggest metals trading firm, on Monday offered $6.5 billion to buy Equinox Minerals , chasing the target company's copper assets in Zambia and Saudi Arabia.

Stock index futures were little changed on Monday, with the S&P 500 facing a level where selling has clustered in recent sessions.

The Gold Price rose early Monday in London, nearing last week's high of $1439 per ounce as energy prices led a surge in commodity prices and Silver Bullion jumped 1.9% to fresh 31-year highs.

Fast-food chain McDonald's Corp said on Monday that it plans to hire as many as 50,000 U.S. additional employees later this month, citing improvements in its domestic business in recent months.

The 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards took place Sunday April 3 in Las Vegas. The awards show was full of A-list celebrities. A long with cowboy hats and boots, the night was filled with doses of glam and rock and roll.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it is releasing radioactive water into the ocean so as to leave space in the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for water that is more contaminated.

Talks between Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, and Microsoft on a software deal are on schedule and a large number of Nokia Windows phones should be sold in 2012.

Deutsche Boerse won't make a decision on a higher bid for NYSE Euronext until the U.S. exchange's board reacts to last week's counter-offer from Nasdaq and IntercontinentalExchange, sources said.

Consumers are a lot more cautious about their spending than they were before the recession, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Monday.

Stocks were set to open slightly higher on Monday, with the S&P 500 facing a level where selling has clustered in recent sessions.

Fast-food chain McDonald's Corp said on Monday that it plans to hire as many as 50,000 U.S. additional employees later this month, citing improvements in its domestic business in recent months.

Manchester United striker celebrated his hat-trick against West Ham on Saturday by swearing into the camera. Here's a video of the incident.