Stocks across Europe finished higher Friday, but shares of some supermarket chains were hit hard after Amazon.com Inc. unexpectedly said it's scooping up Whole Foods Market Inc. in a nearly $14 billion deal.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday notched its 21st record of 2017 led by a late-stage rise in energy shares, as Amazon announced plans to buy Whole Foods- one of the buzziest mergers of 2017. However, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended lower and booked a second-straight weekly loss, extending what has proven a painful weekly stretch for tech';s highfliers.

Stock markets were higher in Asia early Monday, with resilience in U.S. equities helping to improve risk appetite at the dawn of an action-packed week. Among other events, investors will be focused on the start of formal Brexit negotiations and a decision on whether to include China's domestically-traded A-shares in MSCI's emerging-market index, which is widely followed.