RTTNews | Aug 4, 2020 04:45PM EDT

04:45 Tuesday, August 04, 2020

|BEGINSUB|Asian Shares Follow Wall Street Higher|ENDSUB|Asian stocks rose broadly on Tuesday after Wall Street's main indexes rose overnight on data showing a bigger than expected acceleration in the pace of growth in U.S. manufacturing activity in July and Microsoft's statement confirming that it is talks to purchase the U.S. operations of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok.

|BEGINSUB|European Stocks Close Mixed After Swinging Between Gains And Losses|ENDSUB|European stocks turned in a mixed performance on Tuesday with investors largely making cautious moves as they digested the latest batch of earnings reports, and kept an eye on the geopolitical front, and awaited progress on U.S. stimulus.

|BEGINSUB|U.S. Stocks Close Mostly Higher On Late-Day Advance|ENDSUB|Stocks showed a lack of direction for much of the trading session on Tuesday but managed to end the day mostly higher. The major averages benefited from a late move to the upside after spending the day bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line.

|BEGINSUB|Stock Alert: Alterity Therapeutics Surges To New 52-week High |ENDSUB|Shares of Alterity Therapeutics Limited are gaining almost 144 percent or $1.94 in Tuesdays morning trade at $3.29, after earlier touching a new 52-week high of $3.84.

Monday, Alterity Therapeutics said that new clinical and experimental pharmacology data for its lead drug candidate ATH434 has been selected for presentation at the 2020 International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders (MDS 2020) and the American Neurological Association's 2020 Annual Meeting (ANA 2020).

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