US Stocks Jump as Tensions With North Korea Appear to Ease<br />NEW YORK — U. S. stocks rallied Monday as technology companies and banks helped companies regain a lot of the ground they lost last week, although the calm<br />that has defined the market this year wasn’t quite restored.<br />It did not say who made the offer, but Neff said its board has decided the new offer is<br />superior to a bid from H&E Equipment Services that the company accepted last month.<br />Equipment rental company Neff said it received a buyout offer worth $25 per share, or $596 million.<br />It did not identify that company and said Fiat Chrysler rejected the offer because it wasn’t high enough, but investors hoped another bid would come.<br />Shonda Rhimes, the creator of popular television series such as "Scandal"<br />and "Grey’s Anatomy," will leave ABC and make shows for Netflix under a new contract.<br />H&E Equipment has the right to match the new offer.<br />Dave Lafferty said that What the market really reacted negatively to on Thursday was Trump’s somewhat incendiary comments about ’fire and fury,’
