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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Breakingviews) - Microsoft may finally get its social-media breakthrough. The least cool technology giant is in talks to buy parts of TikTok, the wildly popular Chinese-owned video app. Owning it could finally bring buzz and more advertising dollar

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The S&P 500 and Dow were subdued on Tuesday as Sino-U.S. tensions escalated following President Donald Trump's moves to force a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations, with investors also disappointed by quarterly results from Ralph Lauren and AIG.

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of Boeing topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 2.0%. Year to date, Boeing has lost about 49.2% of its value.

Wall Street was set to pull back on Tuesday as President Donald Trump's moves to force China-owned TikTok into a sale of its U.S. operations drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, ratcheting up tensions as the world slides into a pandemic-fuelled recession.

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U.S. stock futures pulled back on Tuesday as President Donald Trump's moves to force China-owned TikTok into a sale of its U.S. operations drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, ratcheting up tensions as the world slides into a pandemic-fuelled recession.

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees on Tuesday there were misunderstandings on Chinese social media about TikTok's situation in the United States and that the company could face more difficulties as anti-Chinese sentiment rose abroad.

Microsoft has emerged as a savior to young users of TikTok, who praised the tech industry giant for trying to buy parts of the social media company's operations, in hopes of avoiding a U.S. shutdown.

Asian shares advanced on Tuesday thanks to strong U.S. manufacturing data and upbeat tech stocks, though broader worries about the coronavirus and global economy saw some markets trim early gains.

Asian shares rose on Tuesday after strong U.S. manufacturing data and gains in tech stocks helped investors look past broader worries about the coronavirus and global economy.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro suggested on Monday that Microsoft Corp could divest its holdings in China if it were to buy the Chinese owned short-video app TikTok.

Asian shares rose on Tuesday after strong U.S. manufacturing data and gains in tech stocks helped investors look past broader worries about the coronavirus and global economy.

Australian shares rose 2% on Tuesday to notch their best intraday session in two weeks after a tech-led overnight rally on Wall Street and strong manufacturing data from leading economies bolstered risk appetite.

China will not accept the "theft" of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington's move to push ByteDance to sell short-video app TikTok's U.S. operations to Microsoft, the China Daily newspaper said on Tuesday.

Asian shares were on track to open higher on Tuesday, after strong manufacturing data and gains in tech stocks boosted global equities and the U.S. dollar overnight.

The S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) finished trading up 23.5 points, or about 0.7%, on Aug. 3, starting a new month off on a positive note. Today's positive move is being fueled by a surge for both Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), up 2.5% and 5.8% on th

The U.S. government should receive a "big percentage" of the proceeds from any sale of the U.S. operations of TikTok to Microsoft, President Donald Trump said on Monday.

All three indexes finished the first trading day of August higher, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite hitting a new intraday record high on the back of outsized gains from Microsoft (MSFT). The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average also ended the day in the black, as