(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday after largely in-line consumer prices data kept bets of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September in tact. A Labor Department report showed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% on a monthly basis in July, versus the 0.2% increase forecast by economists polled by Reuters. Annually, it stood at...

08:02 AM EDT, 08/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Lithium Argentina ( LAR ) traded 3% lower at last look Tuesday in NYSE pre-market trading after it agreed to form a joint venture with Ganfeng Lithium Group to consolidate their assets in Argentina. The joint venture will own Ganfeng's Pozuelos-Pastos Grandes project as well as Lithium Argentina's ( LAR ) Pastos Grandes...

08:01 AM EDT, 08/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US equity futures were little changed pre-bell Tuesday as traders looked ahead to a key inflation report. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures, S&P 500 futures, and Nasdaq futures were all nearly flat. Oil prices were lower, with front-month global benchmark North Sea Brent crude down 0.5% at $66.31 per barrel and US West...

08:26 AM EDT, 08/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( SPY ) was down 0.04% and the actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) was 0.1% lower in Tuesday's premarket activity as investors await the July inflation data. US stock futures were also lower, with S&P 500 Index futures down 0.1%, Dow Jones...