Economic Indicators

U.S. stocks rose Tuesday following strong results from industrial and health care companies as well as a report that the U.S. and China are trying to restart trade talks.

President Donald Trump has indicated to staff that he won't try to shut down the federal government before the midterm elections to try to win more money for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, administration officials said Tuesday.

Shareholders of SCANA agreed Tuesday to sell the South Carolina utility to Virginia-based Dominion Energy, which has agreed to swallow billions of dollars in debt from the company's failed nuclear construction project and other operations.

MoviePass, the discount service for movie tickets, is raising prices by 50 percent and barring viewings of most major releases during the first two weeks.

The Trump administration is citing safety to justify freezing gas mileage requirements.

The Trump administration is considering implementing a big tax break for wealthy American by reducing the taxes levied on capital gains, according to published reports.

The month was negatively impacted by an unseasonably strong June for the car industry.

The war of words intensified between two titans in Republican politics on Tuesday as President Donald Trump trashed the conservative billionaire Koch brothers as a "total joke in real Republican circles."

The country's oldest nuclear power plant is being sold to a company that will decommission it in the next eight years, decades earlier than required by industry protocols.

Pfizer is reporting a second-quarter profit surge, though the drugmaker says weakening currencies in Europe and Asia could nick revenue ahead.

Employers' wage and benefit costs climbed in the second quarter of this year.

A senior World Bank official says the Lebanese economy is "not doing great" and urged the country's leaders to approve projects put forward by the international lender, saying otherwise they would be cancelled.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the recall of a half-million trucks with faulty pollution controls.

U.S. stocks are rising Tuesday morning after a three-day losing streak.

The German Farmers' Association is asking the government for 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in subsidies to help cover losses from this year's harvest, affected by the continuing drought and heat across large stretches of Europe.

The economy grew at a 4.1 percent rate in the second quarter, almost double the January-March period's 2.2 percent pace and the strongest performance in nearly four years.

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Consumer spending rose solid 0.4 percent in June while 12-month inflation reading was 2.2 percent.

Meanwhile, Detroit automakers General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles lowered their full-year profit forecasts just last week amid worries escalating tariffs would hurt margins and sales.