NEW YORK The U.S. S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average stock indexes set record intraday highs on Tuesday after reduced global political tensions and upbeat corporate results from Alcoa boosted risk appetite, while European shares also rallied.

Blame pricier beans. It's becoming a summer ritual for Starbucks SBUX 1.56% : price hikes on many of its most popular drinks. The café giant on Tuesday raised the price of some items as much as 30 cents as it contends with rising coffee costs.

The sun was barely up on the East Coast, and Amazon shoppers were already snagging deals, including more than 18,000 headphones, and poking fun at some of the discounts available for the online retailer's Prime Day.

J.P. Morgan Chase JPM 1.57 % & Co. tellers are getting raises. James Dimon, chief executive of the nation's largest bank by assets, announced the firm will boost pay for 18,000 of its lower-tier employees over the next three years at a time when those ...

PALO ALTO (CBS SF & AP) - Federal safety investigators are asking Palo Alto-based electric car maker Tesla Motors for details on how its Autopilot system works after as many as three crashes.

Heavy truck traffic to and from the CenterPoint Intermodal Center has taxed area roads and rattled residents, but officials expect the new toll bridge project will provide relief.

LOS ANGELES - YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and other social media are ripe with popular online "influencers," who plug products for companies, in return for a fee, to their millions of followers.

Oil prices surged as much as 4 percent on Tuesday in a technical correction and on short covering after a two-month lows hit in the previous session, traders said.

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Job openings fell to a five-month low and hiring dropped to an 18-month low in May. By Andrew Soergel | Staff Writer July 12, 2016, at 12:17 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Hiring, Openings Cool in Labor Market's Miserable May.