Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday:TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab — TD Ameritrade shares jumped nearly 7% after the company confirmed it will be acquired by rival Charles Schwab for $26 billion in an all-stock deal. Tiffany — The jeweler’s stock rose 6.1% after LVMH confirmed it will buy Tiffany for $16.2 billion, or $135 a share in cash. Tiffany shares traded around $133. Uber Technologies — Uber shares fell as much as 4% after a London regulator stripped the ride-hailing gia

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that President Donald Trump, in an extraordinary move, ordered the Pentagon to let a Navy SEAL convicted of combat misconduct retain his elite Trident pin. Esper’s comments came hours after the Pentagon fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer amid controversy over the handling of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher’s case. Last week, Spencer said that Gallagher’s membership in the SEAL community should be decided by a board of his peers. O

A copy of the “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” script briefly appeared on eBay, director J.J. Abrams said. On Monday, Abrams revealed on “Good Morning America” that a real script found its way onto the e-commerce site. “It was then given to someone else who went to sell it on eBay.” The script was discovered by someone at Disney and the company was able to retrieve the script before it was sold, he said. The nine-film Skywalker saga comes to a conclusion Dec. 20 with the release of “The Rise o

To many fans, Dolly Parton is more than just an iconic musician and a living legend, she’s a role model for success. “I’m like that mother figure,” Parton told ABC News’ Robin Roberts in a recent interview. Specifically, Parton was told that she wouldn’t be taken seriously due to the way she dressed and presented herself, she told People. I will know it because I’m that in tune with myself and that in tune with God,'” Parton recalled to People. “It may not always turn out right from me, but I’m

London is giving Uber the boot. London authorities on Monday revoked the ride-hailing company’s license to operate in the city, a move that would cut Uber off from its biggest European market. The ruling is on hold while Uber puts through an appeal. After months of tension between London and Uber, experts weren’t exactly surprised by the developments, taking Uber’s over 1% decline on Monday in stride. If you think about the ramifications here, this has been a back-and-forth between Uber and Lond

Trump praised Conan, a Belgian Malinois, who was injured while chasing al-Baghdadi down a dead-end tunnel in Syria. It was a dog day afternoon at the White House on Monday, when President Donald Trump celebrated the heroic pup who took part in last month’s military raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump present Conan, the military working dog injured in the successful operation targeting Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, be

Two Manhattan federal jail guards accused of trying to cover up their failure to check on accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the hours before his suicide are now scheduled to go on trial April 20. Prosecutors previously said some of the video does not show anyone approaching Epstein’s cell after he was last seen entering it on the night of Aug. 9. Prosecutors and defense lawyers said Monday they expect the guards’ trial to last one week. The defendants, who are free on bail, are sch

A mid-engine 2020 Chevrolet Corvette on the floor of the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 21, 2019. LOS ANGELES – Following Ford Motor’s highly anticipated debut of the all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV, attention is turning to General Motors to potentially leverage the Chevrolet Corvette, its most-iconic nameplate, into a sub-brand and SUV. “It’s time to look at the potential of GM’s supercar brand,” Jonas said, citing it would be “more than a needle-mover for GM.” Jonas said the upcoming mid-engine

Cramer also said, with exasperation, “China is the enemy, except for in the mainstream media that just loves Xi.” Discounting “negative media reports,” China and the U.S. are very close to a first-step trade deal, according to the Global Times on Monday. Pro-democracy candidates won big in Sunday voting in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory. Last week, the U.S. House and Senate passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Trump still has not said whether he’ll sign the bill, w

Facebook and Twitter on Monday announced that personal data of hundreds of users may have been improperly accessed after they used their accounts to log into certain Android apps downloaded from the Google Play store. The companies received a report from security researchers who discovered that a software development kit named One Audience gave third-party developers access to personal data. This includes the email addresses, usernames and most recent tweets of people who used their Twitter acco

What a tough month it has been for bitcoin. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency sank to $6,558.14 on Monday, its lowest level since May, according to industry site CoinDesk. Bitcoin jumped to above $10,000 briefly last month after Xi sang the praises of blockchain in a speech and called on his country to advance development in the field. “This was one of the worst weeks in the history of digital assets,” Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer of Arca, told CNBC. Still, bitcoin has doubled in

Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBCWith two huge mergers being the talk of Wall Street, which one would Warren Buffett do? Buffett’s rules of the road for acquisitions have been expressed in years of shareholder letters. A stock deal allows shareholders to benefit from those synergies — albeit always uncertain in the initial estimation on deal date — that can accrue over time. Even as Berkshire’s cash hoard has grown to near-$130 billion, Buffett has been reluctant to make big deals. But managem

Papadopoulos went to jail for 12 days late last year after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. Trump is known to be a fervent viewer of “Fox & Friends.” The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment asking if the president would endorse Papadopoulos. In a Nov. 13 email asking supporters to donate to his then-potential campaign, Pa

Leah Millis | ReutersFederal Reserve economists warn that printing money to pay for deficit spending, as Modern Monetary Theory proponents recommend, has been a disaster for other nations that have tried it. “A solution some countries with high levels of unsustainable debt have tried is printing money. In this scenario, the government borrows money by issuing bonds and then orders the central bank to buy those bonds by creating (printing) money,” wrote Scott A. Wolla and Kaitlyn Frerking. “Histo

A worker fits wheel hub badges on the Ford Focus automobile assembly line inside the Ford Motor Co. factory in Saarlouis, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Ford expects hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) to make up over 50% of its European passenger vehicle sales by year-end 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHow can a company have $37 billion in cash and short-term assets on the balance sheet and still be strapped for cash? Begin with two related, near-ter

Thieves grabbed jewels and other treasures worth up to a billion euros from an eastern German museum in the early hours of Monday, Bild newspaper reported. The intruders cut the electricity supply in Dresden’s Gruenes Gewoelbe, or Green Vault museum, which houses one of Europe’s largest collections of jewelry and court riches, the newspaper said without giving a source. One of its best known treasures – the 41-carat Dresden “Green Diamond” – was away on loan to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of

Greg Baker | AFP | Getty ImagesThe watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Taken as a whole, the documents give the most significant description yet of high-tech mass detention in the 21st century in the words of the Chinese government itself. China has struggled for decades to control Xinjiang, where the Uighurs have long resented Beijing’s heavy-handed rule. Most of the documents were issued in 2017, as Xinjiang’s “War on Te

Sterling will move in accordance with the likelihood of a win for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party at the U.K. general election, analysts are anticipating. Analysts are now setting a majority of seats for the Conservatives as their base case, with many projecting that this will offer a sharp boost for U.K. risk assets and the sterling-dollar trade. A Conservative majority and an orderly Brexit at the turn of the year could see the pound trade as high as $1.35, according to UBS U

Shares in Asia were higher on Monday, as investors reacted to Hong Kong’s district council elections amid months of civil unrest in the city. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index led gains among major markets regionally as it jumped 1.5% to close at 26,993.04, with shares of life insurer AIA surging 3.62%. The moves came after pro-democracy candidates surged to a landslide victory following a record voter turnout, Reuters reported. One analyst said the development was a “stunning victory” for pro-democra

Positive news flow on the Sino-U.S. trade front lifted market sentiment on Monday, driving the Japanese yen to a one-week low and fueling 0.2-0.3% gains on trade-focused currencies, from the Norwegian crown to the New Zealand dollar. The offshore Chinese yuan nevertheless firmed 0.2% against the dollar, in line with other Asian currencies as well as the Australian and Kiwi dollars, while the safe-haven yen retreated to a one-week low versus the greenback at 108.89 yen. The dollar index edged off