Good morning, Bay Area. Starting your day with energy, ExxonMobil struck a nearly $60 billion agreement Wednesday to buy Texas-based Pioneer Natural Resources in the largest oil-and-gas deal in two decades. The deal is Exxon’s largest since its $75 billion merger with Mobil in the late 1990s and is the biggest corporate transaction so far this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. In other news, after an attack this week made international headlines, the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco's Western…
