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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels

Stocks are mostly lower on Wal Street Tuesday as momentum slows on worries about rising virus counts and Washington’s inability to deliver more aid to the economy

President Donald Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy

Drugmaker Merck, bouncing back from a $1.6 billion hit from the coronavirus pandemic in the second quarter, boosted its third-quarter profit by 55% and blew past Wall Street expectations

As the head of product inclusion at Google, Annie Jean-Baptiste works to help ensure that the company’s products -- from photos to search to everything else -- are built with everyone in mind

The popular short-form video app TikTok is moving closer to becoming a marketplace for buying stuff

Drugmaker Pfizer, one of the leaders in the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, is tweaking its timeline for when it will know if its experimental two-dose shot works

Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias

Advanced Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of mergers and buyouts in the industry

The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from a coronavirus outbreak that cost states more than $2 billion in lost tax revenue while casinos were shut down for four months this year

Italy is bracing for another day of nationwide protests against virus-fighting measures that have closed restaurants and bars early and shut down gyms and swimming pools

Eli Lilly continues to back a potential COVID-19 treatment despite research showing that it may not work on hospitalized patients

BP plc says third-quarter earnings plunged 96% as the COVID-19 pandemic reduced energy prices and demand

U.S. consumer confidence dipped slightly in October as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country

The Czech government is asking the Parliament to approve its plan to extend a state of emergency it declared a month until Dec 3

U.S. home prices posted a robust gain in August — another sign that the American housing market is strong despite economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic

Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods increased 1.9% in September with a key business investment category up as well

The Baltic nation of Lithuania has sent a protest note to Belarus over a planned nuclear power plant close to their shared border that is to start operating in November

Caterpillar’s sales fell 23% in the third quarter as dealers continued to pull back on construction equipment in their showrooms during the coronavirus pandemic

Eli Lilly and Co. is reporting third-quarter net income of $1.21 billion

Spain says 355,000 more people have been left unemployed in the third quarter

Greece’s coast guard says a Greek navy minesweeper and a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship have collided outside the country’s main port of Piraeus

Southern California Edison says its equipment may have sparked a Southern California wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders for more than 90,000 people and critically injured two firefighters

Shares have fallen in Asia after surging coronavirus cases and waning hopes for U.S. economic stimulus gave Wall Street its worst day in a month

Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street Monday, handing the S&P 500 its worst day in a month and knocking 650 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Dunkin’ doughnuts and coffee chain has confirmed it’s held talks to be taken private by a private equity firm, sending its shares rocketing to an all-time high

Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Monday: SAP, KB Home fall; Dunkin’ Brands, AstraZeneca rise

Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels

Muslims in the Middle East and beyond are calling for boycotts of French products and for protests as a clash over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad and the limits of free speech intensifies

Several Fox News Channel executives and on-air personalities were exposed last week to a person on a private plane who later tested positive for COVID-19

Prospects for more federal economic stimulus this year appear all but dead, clouding the future for the unemployed, for small businesses and for the U.S. economy as a whole

In lines of cars stretching more than half a mile, people thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic queue up with other needy people to receive some of the 1 million pounds of food distributed some days by the Houston Food Bank

With Election Day approaching and the pandemic ongoing, Oprah Winfrey is setting aside her usual book club recommendations

Sales of new homes fell by 3.5% in September to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 959,000 million units, the Commerce Department said Monday, as the housing market’s summer buying season came to a close

After the pandemic stopped life in its tracks in mid-March, many people have turned to YouTube food channels to help them learn how to cook, or cook better, and be part of a community

The world’s largest fintech company, China's Ant Group, will try to raise nearly $35 billion in a public offering of stock that would be the biggest ever

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has declared Japan will achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050 in his first policy speech since taking over from Shinzo Abe

Sept. 1, 1999: More and more children are speaking the language of Pokemon.

The operator of an oil tanker that was stormed by British naval special forces after a group of stowaways threatened violence says all the crew members are “safe and well."

German health care company Bayer says it is buying Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, a U.S.-based firm specializing in gene therapy, in a deal worth up to $4 billion

China's government says it will impose sanctions on U.S. companies including Boeing and Lockheed Martin for supplying weapons to rival Taiwan

Coal magnate Robert Murray has died at his home in Ohio less than a week after announcing his retirement as board chairman of a major U.S. coal operator

The Conference Board issues its October index of U.S. consumer confidence Tuesday

President Donald Trump is campaigning relentlessly heading into the election's final week

President Donald Trump is campaigning relentlessly heading into the election's final week

Asian shares are little changed in muted trading amid widespread uncertainty over what the U.S. presidential election will portend for markets and economic policy

Lee had been hospitalized for years with his son in charge of company affairs

Italy’s leader has imposed at least a month of new restrictions to fight rising coronavirus infections, shutting down gyms, pools and movie theaters and putting an early curfew on cafes and restaurants

The coronavirus pandemic is surging across Europe with renewed force and, with winter coming, its restaurant industry is struggling

French authorities have denounced Turkish “propaganda” against France that they said was aimed at fanning hate at home and abroad and say calls to boycott French products need to cease immediately