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Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai over the last three years has touted the business prospects of what he has called "three of our biggest bets: YouTube, cloud and hardware."

Siemens is buying Iberdrola's stake in Siemens Gamesa renewable energy , the German engineering company said, as it prepares to merge the business with its own energy unit ahead of a floatation later this year.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration examined asbestos testing for talc powders and cosmetics at a hearing on Tuesday, after traces of the known carcinogen were found in several such products, including Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder.

Finland's Kone and private equity firms are battling to buy ThyssenKrupp's prized elevator division worth more than 15 billion euros ($16.6 billion), a deal which would be Europe's biggest private equity deal in 13 years.

Shares of Tesla Inc surged 20% on Tuesday to hit $940, extending a stunning rally that has more than doubled the company's market value since the start of the year as more investors bet on Chief Executive Elon Musk's vision.

U.S. stocks surged on Tuesday and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were on pace to unwind losses from last week as fears of a heavy economic impact from the coronavirus epidemic tapered off after China's central bank intervened for the second day.

The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its investigation into Apple Inc , one of the four big tech companies being probed for alleged anti-competitive behavior, according one of the developers and another person familiar with the investigation.

New orders for U.S.-made goods increased by the most in nearly 1-1/2 years in December, flattered by robust demand for defense aircraft, but persistently weak business spending on equipment pointed to limited scope for a sharp rebound in manufacturing.

Ride-hailing company Beat hopes rival Uber will return to Colombia, but meanwhile, it will capitalize on the void it left and try to fill it, the company said.

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas gave Tesla's Elon Musk high praise on Tuesday.

The share of workers in the gig economy has grown 15% among American businesses since 2010, and some experts worry about the financial challenges this trend presents.

Canada's Bombardier Inc is in talks to sell its business-jet unit to U.S. maker of Cessna jets, Textron Inc , the Wall Street Journal reported https://www.wsj.com/articles/bombardier-in-talks-to-sell-business-jet-unit-to-textron-11580835712?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2, citing people familiar with the matter.

Some investors believe Tesla has ballooned to levels unjustified by its fundamentals.

Alphabet Inc shares fell 4% on Tuesday after the search giant posted its first holiday-quarter revenue miss in five years, even as new disclosures on the company's smaller YouTube unit were warmly welcomed by Wall Street.

ConocoPhillips boosted its share buyback program by $10 billion on Tuesday even as lower oil and gas prices continued to batter the world's largest independent oil and gas producer's profit.