Dow <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^DJI> 13521.34 +14.06 (+0.10%) London <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^FTSE> 6606.50 +36.00 (+0.55%) Nikkei <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^N225> 17639.33 -33.23 (-0.19%) Korea <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^KS11> 1648.12 -13.68 (-0.82%) Hong Kong <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^HSI> 20469.59 -60.17 (-0.29%) Shanghai <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^SSEC> 4206.93 -127.99 (-2.95%) Singapore <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^STI> 3496.15 -30.93 (-0.88%) Kuala Lumpur<http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^KLSE> 1343.00 -2.99 (-0.22%) Jakarta <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^JKSE> 2058.74 +0.00 (+0.00%) Quotes are delayed 20 minutes.> ------------------------------ *Market Update* <http://finance.yahoo.com/mo>
*4:20 pm* : Stocks picked up where they left off last Friday, catching a bid�on another round of M&A activity. Per usual, the first day of the trading week was packed with more deal-making news, lending further evidence that the financial markets continue to draw strength from the liquidity factor. The day's biggest headline involved news that a consortium led by the�Royal Bank�of Scotland sweetened its bid for *ABN Amro* (ABN 47.98 -0.29) to $95.5 bln. That represented a 13.7% premium to the offer made by *Barclays* (BCS
