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U.S. stock index futures treaded water on Tuesday, a day after Wall Street closed at record highs, as investors waited for the latest on the trade talks between the United States and China.

Best Buy Co Inc forecast fourth-quarter profit above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, pointing to hopes of strong demand in the crucial holiday shopping season and sending the shares of the biggest U.S. tech retailer up nearly 5%.

Volkswagen's luxury car unit Audi is planning to cut 9,500 jobs by 2025, a person close to the matter said.

London Stock Exchange shareholders met on Tuesday to vote on the exchange's $27 billion takeover of analytics and data company Refinitiv, a deal designed to broaden LSE's trading business and make it a major distributor of market data.

Oil prices rose on Tuesday on hopes of progress toward a trade agreement between the United States and China, the world's biggest oil users, and predictions of a draw on U.S. crude inventories.

Volkswagen's luxury car unit Audi has agreed to give employment guarantees until 2029 in its home-market Germany, two people close to the matter said.

"If you get two or three BBB-credit downgrades to BB or B, that could lead to a rapid widening in credit spreads," Kaplan warned.

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Abercrombie & Fitch Co reported a better-than-expected 3% rise in same-store sales at its flagship brand on Tuesday, but said tariffs would hurt gross profit in the current quarter.

Xerox Corp said on Tuesday it was planning to take its $33.5 billion buyout bid directly to HP Inc shareholders after the personal computer maker refused to open its books for due diligence before a deadline.

Dollar Tree Inc on Tuesday forecast holiday-quarter profit below Wall Street expectations, as the discount store operator expects a hit from U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, sending its shares down about 8% before the opening bell.

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London Stock Exchange shareholders overwhelmingly backed the exchange's $27 billion takeover of data and analytics company Refinitiv on Tuesday, a deal designed to broaden LSE's trading business and make it a major distributor of market data.

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Wall Street stocks have leap-frogged over a host of concerns, including a stall in corporate earnings and political controversy in Washington, on their way to record highs this month.