(Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes fell on Monday as a plummeting Turkish lira weighed on shares of big U.S. lenders, but losses on the Nasdaq were limited by high-flying companies such as Apple and Amazon that hit record highs.

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday he was in discussions with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and other potential backers of his plan to take the electric car-maker private, but said financing was not yet nailed down.

(Reuters) - Netflix Inc Chief Financial Officer David Wells will step down after eight years in the role, the video streaming company said on Monday.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 percent on Monday, losing about $14 billion in value, after newly acquired Monsanto was ordered to pay $289 million in damages in the first of possibly thousands of U.S. lawsuits over alleged links between a weedkiller and cancer.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese officials have been mostly measured and moderate in their response to U.S. President Donald Trump's ratcheting up of a trade war with Beijing in recent weeks through his announcement of a series of punitive tariffs. They have generally avoided adding to tensions, allowing the Communist Party's official media to make the most bellicose comments.

(Reuters) - The National Retail Federation on Monday raised its U.S. retail sales forecast for 2018, citing higher wages, gains in disposable income and a strong job market that have boosted consumer spending.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said on Monday that Jud Linville, the head of global cards and consumer services, is leaving the company as part of a reorganization of executives in its global consumer banking businesses.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Congress should be consulted on a plan for U.S. planemaker Boeing Co to take over the commercial jet unit of Embraer SA , the speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Former Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler's request to be freed from custody has been rejected, the Munich court of appeal said on Monday.