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A promised plan to restore long-term confidence in the euro boosted stocks and other risky assets Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 150 points, led by banks.

U.S. stocks rose added t three weeks of gains for the S&P after strong earnings from Caterpillar and some proposed acquisitions boosted investor appetite for risky assets.

Investors shed risky assets in the United States and Europe on Monday in a sign of increasing pessimism about Greece’s debt crisis.

Asian stocks climbed and the euro inched higher on Monday after policymakers approved an emergency tranche of funding for Greece, offering a lifeline to the debt-stricken nation while strong U.S. data also boosted demand for risky assets.

U.S. stocks looked set to fall at Monday’s open as investors shed riskier assets before euro zone finance ministers meet to discuss the region's debt crisis.

Dec. 2 -- Darius Kowalczyk, chief investment strategist at SJS Markets Ltd., talks with Bloomberg's Mark Barton about the Dubai debt crisis and his investment strategy.

Bank of America has reached an agreement to pay the government $425 million to end a loss-sharing deal involving risky assets from the company's takeover of Merrill Lynch.

The program would use $75 billion to $100 billion from the government’s bailout program, combined with private capital, to buy up to $500 billion in toxic assets.

Britain will get a stake of up to 77 percent in Lloyds Banking Group after agreeing a deal to cap its losses at $370 billion of risky assets, the struggling bank said.