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

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

Credit Suisse lowered Amazon's full-year earnings per share estimate as it expects the company to apply the one-day shipping on a large number of products.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Deutsche Bank reported a bigger than forecast quarterly loss of 3.15 billion euros ($3.5 billion), underlining the challenges faced by Chief Executive Christian Sewing as he attempts to turn around the struggling business.

Facebook Inc will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the social media giant will restructure its approach to privacy, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.