Patricia Kowsmann

**↗️** **Match (MTCH)**: Hedge fund Starboard Value has built a big stake in the online-dating company and is pushing for a possible sale if a turnaround isn’t successful. Shares of the Tinder parent jumped over 8%.

NEWSPLUS Earnings season is revving up, pushing the broader stock market to new records. The Dow industrials, fresh off an all-time high Monday, rose more than 1.8%, about 743 points on Tuesday. That rise was aided by a surge in UnitedHealth stock after the health insurer reported results.

🔎 **Alphabet (GOOG),** **(GOOGL)**: Google’s talks to acquire the cybersecurity startup Wiz for a planned $23 billion have fallen apart, the Journal reported. Google parent Alphabet is due to report results after Tuesday's market close.

Stock futures were drifting after Tesla and other tech companies helped propel the stock market higher in the previous session.

🔎 **Alphabet (GOOG),** **(GOOGL)**: Google’s talks to acquire the cybersecurity startup Wiz for a planned $23 billion have fallen apart, the Journal reported. Google parent Alphabet is due to report results after Tuesday's market close.

NEWSPLUS It’s a big earnings day, with Tesla and Google parent Alphabet due to report results. Results from Spotify, Coca-Cola General Motors and UPS are already out. Spotify leapt in premarket trading after the audio company posted its second consecutive quarterly profit.

NEWSPLUS Never mind U.S. elections, market rotation, Taiwan’s future or the Blue Screen of Death—for once investors are getting back to basics, and digging into a swath of blue-chip earnings. Results from Spotify, Coca-Cola General Motors UPS and others are already out.

Stocks edged higher, with major indexes veering between small gains and losses on a busy earnings day.

Shares in Deutsche Bank tumbled after it dashed hopes for a stock buyback and set aside $1.4 billion related to a longstanding takeover dispute. The bank said in April that it could have to pay out to shareholders of Postbank, which it bought in 2010, after they spent years arguing in court that Deutsche Bank underpaid them. Taking aside the one-off charge, Deutsche Bank’s investment bank lifted results thanks to its origination and advisory business, which includes leveraged financing and dealmaking.

Banco de Sabadell's chief executive said BBVA's plan to buy its smaller Spanish rival is filled with risks, and shareholders are better off keeping Sabadell independent. “We have never seen before such an opposition to a potential merger,” Sabadell CEO César González-Bueno said in an interview, referring to different interest groups in Spain. Sabadell shareholders, however, will have the ultimate vote.