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The Commerce Department releases its January report on consumer spending Monday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.

A slick new documentary on China's environmental woes has racked up more than 28 million online views in two days, underscoring growing concern in the country over the impact of air, water and soil pollution.

German energy company RWE says it has completed the 5.1 billion euro ($5.7 billion) sale of its oil and gas exploration and production division to a Russian-linked investment company.

Key milestones in the history of the Nasdaq composite index: — Feb. 8, 1971: Nasdaq index is created and set at 100 by the National Association of Securities Dealers, an industry self-regulatory group.

It's taken 15 years for the Nasdaq composite index to approach the record high of 5,048 it reached back in March 2000, at the height of the tech-stock boom that would later collapse.

Official figures show that the fall in consumer prices across the 19-country eurozone eased in February, a development that may assuage market concerns that the region is set to suffer a pronounced period of deflation.

Samsung's new Galaxy smartphones improve in two major areas: design and picture quality.

Two airplane catastrophes put Malaysia on the map in a bad way in 2014.

When Alison Norris couldn't find work in Detroit, she searched past the city limits, ending up with a part-time restaurant job that's 20 miles away but takes at least two hours to get to via separate city and suburban bus systems.

China's manufacturing activity improved in February for the first time in four months but export demand weakened, a survey released Monday showed.

Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday as a weekend interest rate cut by the Chinese central bank lifted sentiment following the release of lackluster U.S. growth data.

Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks kept their head above water after a brief struggle Monday morning, digesting news that China's central bank had lowered interest rates over the weekend due to increasing downward pressure facing the Chinese economy.

Here are the latest trading levels for Asia's major stock markets: Tokyo (Nikkei Average ) up 0.2% ; Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index ) up 0.3% ; Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index ) up 0.3% ; Sydney (S&P/ASX 200 ) up 0.8% ; Seoul (Kospi ) up 0.3% ; Taipei (Taiex ) flat Copyright © 2015 MarketWatch, Inc.

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V.

Japanese stocks posted some solid gains at the Monday open, helped in no small part by a weaker yen as the dollar rose to �119.94, up from late Friday's �119.34.

Australian stocks stacked up some fresh gains in early Monday trading, with the top banks and senior miners supporting the advance a day ahead of a Reserve Bank of Australia policy decision.

Last fall, Apple launched Apple Pay, bringing mobile-payment technology to the iPhone.

The crowd at this year's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is likely to top 40,000 as the company marks 50 years of Warren Buffett's leadership.

Will Smith's caper "Focus" dethroned "Fifty Shades of Grey" at the box office, but the film's modest $19.1 million opening still left questions about the drawing power of the once unstoppable star.

From the outside, the new HTC One smartphone looks and feels like last year's model.