China’s corporate earnings growth likely slowed or was stagnant in the second quarter as the US ratcheted up trade tariffs, signaling that the latest results season may not offer much in terms of good news for stock investors.

By Siyi Liu and Trixie Yap SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese state-owned refiners are ramping up output after completing maintenance to meet higher third-quarter fuel demand and to rebuild diesel and gasoline stocks which are at multi-year lows,

China’s Geely Auto is officially taking its luxury EV subsidiary Zeekr private, just over a year after the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange.

For strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as well as money managers in Hong Kong and Singapore, an opaque term has suddenly emerged as the catchphrase for deciphering Chinese policy intentions and navigating the stock market.

Tech led US stocks on Tuesday as a key consumer inflation print showed inflation accelerated in June, big banks kicked off earnings season, and Nvidia was set to receive a green light for trade with China from the Trump administration.

The Dow Jones index wavered Tuesday after the CPI inflation report. Nvidia stock surged on AI chip sales to China.

Alibaba stock, JD.com, Baidu and Tencent rise after China reported mixed economic data for the second quarter.

Stock futures are higher Tuesday morning as investors await highly anticipated inflation numbers that are expected to show how tariffs are working their way through the economy.