S&P 500, Dow climb to records.

Byline: Joseph Ciolli

U.S. stocks climbed Monday, pushing benchmark indexes to records, after Internet and small-cap shares rallied amid deals activity that boosted confidence in the world's largest economy.

Salesforce.com Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc. jumped at least 5.8 percent as all 41 members in the Dow Jones Internet Index rose. The gauge surged 3 percent after last week plunging 3.6 percent. 21st Century Fox Inc. jumped 3.1 percent after reports that Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc is in talks to buy European pay TV assets from Fox. Pinnacle Foods Inc. surged 13 percent after Hillshire Brands Co. agreed to buy it for about $6.6 billion including debt.

Some of the technology shares hardest hit last week rebounded today...