tuesday morning

The carmaker said it made payments of $5.9 billion to the United States Treasury and $1.7 billion to Export Development Canada in a series of transactions completed Tuesday morning.

U.S. stocks were poised to open flat to slightly higher Tuesday morning as the bulls look to shrug off China's latest interest rate hike and push the Dow to a seventh straight day of gains.

Apple's stock opened at $327.05 per share on Tuesday morning, down more than 5 percent from its close on Friday.

Since then, however, the stock has recovered somewhat, and sits at $335.00, or down about 3.9 percent at the time of this writing.

The dollar gained Tuesday morning as more worries circulated about eurozone government debt levels, while in the U.S., reports showed big gains in home sales and gradual third-quarter growth.

Johnson & Johnson, a Dow component and the world's biggest healthcare company, reports earnings for the second quarter on Tuesday morning.

The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

The government is set to announce as early as Tuesday morning which of the country's biggest banks will be able to repay billions in federal bailout dollars.

Shares of General Motors Corp. tumbled to their lowest level since 1933 Tuesday morning as investors feared significant dilution of their stock values or bankruptcy as the company approached a June 1 restructuring deadline.

A new prostate cancer drug seemed to prolonged the lives of men in a decisive clinical trial, said the company that manufactures the drug on Tuesday morning.