(Bloomberg) -- Aon Plc agreed to buy NFP Corp. for about $13.4 billion in cash and stock as part of a push into the middle-market segment of the insurance brokerage and wealth-management business.

We’ve said it all week—this is not the time to abandon euro longs, no matter how much noise the preNFP circus drums up. The market is split into two factions ahead of Friday’s jobs report ...