Syngenta surge sees Swiss stocks outperform Europe

LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss shares outperformed a flat European stock market on Monday, boosted by a jump in Swiss chemical company Syngenta after a bid by ChemChina to buy the firm was cleared by a U.S. watchdog. Syngenta was up 11 percent, the top STOXX Europe 600 riser after U.S. regulator CFIUS cleared ChemChina's $43 billion takeover of Syngenta, removing significant uncertainty over whether the acquisition of the world's largest pesticides maker will be completed. The stock contributed 32 poi