Reuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley are not the companies they used to be.

Reuters - American International Group Inc should have a list of assets it wants to sell by next week, its new chief executive said on Monday, as the company prepares to split itself up to repay an emergency bailout loan.

Reuters - Shares of Microsoft Corp jumped 5.1 percent to $26.45 in trading before the opening bell on Monday, after the company raised its quarterly dividend and set a $40 billion share repurchase plan.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to buy back up to $40 billion of its own stock, lift its dividend and issue commercial paper for the first time in the company's history, the software maker said on Monday.

Reuters - Shares of American International Group Inc rose 27 percent on Monday after a report that some leading shareholders are searching for a way to keep the company from being effectively taken over by the Federal Reserve.

Reuters - Wall Street's last two big investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, secured Federal Reserve approval to become banks, ending the swashbuckling era of American deal making amid the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Reuters - Stocks fell on Monday as a spike in oil prices renewed fear about consumer spending and investors worried whether a $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector would be enough to resuscitate the economy.

Reuters - Morgan Stanley sold an equity stake of as much as $8.5 billion to top Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) (8306.T) on Monday, speeding up its transformation into a commercial bank and improving its survival prospects in turbulent times.

Reuters - Central banks in the United States, Europe and Japan will consider taking foreign-denominated assets as collateral in an effort to provide liquidity for battered financial markets, the Nikkei newspaper said on Sunday.

Reuters - Regardless of how much the government ponies up to salvage the financial sector, the global economic hangover may linger for years.

Reuters - While a government plan to mop up billions of dollars of bad debt from bank balance sheets has lifted spirits, few on Wall Street will enter this week ready to declare a new bull run for the stock market.

Reuters - Japan's Nomura Holdings has reached a deal to buy the Asian operations of Lehman Brothers, a source said on Monday, outbidding other banks seeking to scoop up Lehman's Asia group on the cheap.

Reuters - European stocks halted a rally in world equities on Monday and the dollar fell as jittery investors awaited detail of Washington's $700 billion bailout to tackle the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.