U.S. soybean futures firmed on Tuesday for a second straight session as short-covering and technical-buying fueled a bounce from multi-year lows a day earlier, though concerns about weak demand limited gains.
The S&P 500 closed slightly higher on Tuesday, as investors scrutinized a mixed bag of earnings at big U.S. companies and digested comments from Federal Reserve policy makers for clues about its first planned interest-rate cut.
A door panel that flew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet mid-flight on Jan. 5 appeared to be missing four key bolts, according to a preliminary report from U.S. investigators that provided the first official look into how the frightening mishap took shape.
An activist hedge fund chaired by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing U.S. department store operator Kohl's to sell itself, according to people familiar with the matter.
A federal judge has concluded that part of a Massachusetts law banning the sale of pork from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces is unconstitutional, but can be severed to allow the rest of the measure to survive an industry-backed legal challenge, for now.
Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), the global coffee company controlled by Neumann Gruppe GmbH, on Tuesday said it will expand operations in Indonesia with a new business targeting green coffee imports, storage and distribution in the country.
The vast Permian Basin, which encompasses West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, has always been synonymous with energy, primarily oil. However, a new kind of rush has swept through the region in recent years: a sand rush.
Zara owner Inditex has agreed to pay annual bonuses of 1,000 euros ($1,075) for a second year running to the roughly 28,000 shop workers in its home country of Spain this month, a union leader said on Tuesday.
U.S. soybean futures firmed for a second straight session on Tuesday in a short-covering and technical-buying bounce from multi-year lows posted a day earlier, though gains were held in check by concerns about weak demand.
French production of durum wheat could fall again this year to new low this century as time runs out for planting held over from autumn and early field conditions are mixed, crop institute Arvalis said on Tuesday.
Linde Chief Executive Sanjiv Lamba on Tuesday said recent updates to U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for clean energy projects will not affect the company's current projects in the United States.
Shares of U.S. agricultural chemicals maker FMC plunged 14% on Tuesday after a gloomy first-quarter profit forecast fanned investor worries over the potential hit from weakness in Latin America.
Russian metals and energy group En+ is considering building a wind power equipment production site in Russia's Far East with Chinese partners, the region's development agency said on Tuesday.
Pakistan's caretaker cabinet approved a privatisation plan for loss-making Pakistan International Airlines on Tuesday, days after the country's election panel directed it to refrain from making any final deal.
Bolivia's government will sign a deal with China on Tuesday for $350 million in financing to build the South American country's first zinc refining plant, Bolivia's mining ministry said.
Wall Street's main indexes inched higher on Tuesday as investors parsed big-ticket earnings and awaited commentary from policymakers for clues on the timing of the Federal Reserve's first interest-rate cut.