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The "very best thing" that can happen to investors in their 20s, 30s and early 40s is another 10-year period of no returns in the S&P 500, expert Josh Brown says.

Caterpillar Inc's earnings on Wednesday missed Wall Street's estimates, hurt by a combination of weak sales in China, and higher production and restructuring costs, leading to a nearly 4% fall in its shares in premarket trade.

U.S. President Donald Trump has no position on Boeing Co's grounded 737 Max aircraft except that the plane's flaws must be fixed if the company wants to win U.S. approval to fly it again, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.

"There's no question they've limited competition," Mnuchin said.

Alphabet sometimes assists the Department of Defense "and I think Google is an American company that wants to help out the U.S.," Mnuchin says.

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U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday after bleak earnings from industrial bellwethers Caterpillar and Boeing exacerbated concerns of a slowing global economy that have roiled financial markets this year.

Boeing Co posted its largest-ever quarterly loss on Wednesday, diving nearly $3 billion into the red as it wrestles with a longer-than-expected grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX.

Shares of the company dropped more than 16% and hit a new 52-week low.

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GlaxoSmithKline beat second quarter profit expectations with the help of strong demand for its shingles vaccine, prompting the British drugmaker to forecast a smaller fall in profit this year than originally anticipated.

"There's no question they've limited competition," Mnuchin said.

Wall Street analysts remain bullish heading into Facebook's earnings report on Wednesday after the close.

U.S. stocks were mixed on Wednesday as a series of disappointing earnings reports damped investor optimism over the prospect of a new round of U.S.-China trade talks next week, while the euro dropped to a two-month low amid soft economic data.

United Parcel Service Inc said on Wednesday a jump in demand for its Next Day Air service drove better-than-expected profit in the second quarter as large retailers rushed packages to online shoppers.