The dollar surrendered its day-earlier gains Tuesday as investors reentered a thin post-holiday market amid uncertainty over interest rates.

  Gold for current delivery closed at $737.40 per troy ounce Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up from $732.80 late Monday.

  Microsoft Corp. issued seven security patches in a regular update Tuesday, among them fixes for flaws that could let hackers hijack computers using a Web browser.

  Wall Street advanced sharply Tuesday as investors interpreted minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting as indicating the central bank is ready to keep cutting interest rates to boost the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard &Poor's 500 index hit records.

  Independent film studio Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. and Mexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa have reached a deal to make movies and English-language versions of popular Spanish-language television shows for distribution in the U.S., a newspaper reported Tuesday.

  ConAgra Foods Inc. voluntarily stopped production Tuesday at the Missouri plant that makes its Banquet pot pies after health officials said the pies may be linked to 139 cases of salmonella in 30 states.

  Chevron Corp. has agreed to help train Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly in expanding its deepwater oil drilling, Petroleos Mexicanos said Tuesday.

  A growing number of Americans say the economy is the nation's top problem, with the less educated among the most worried, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed Tuesday.

  Worried that a jarring credit crunch would stifle the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve policymakers at their September meeting felt compelled to act aggressively in lowering a key interest rate for the first time in over four years.

  Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute ?most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.

  NBC Universal said Tuesday it is buying Oxygen Media, a cable television network designed to appeal to women, for about $925 million (?658.97 million).

  The United States slammed Brazil, India and South Africa on Tuesday for refusing to open up their manufacturing markets in World Trade Organization talks, despite recent concessions by Washington on the sensitive topic of farm subsidies.

  It sounds like a fast-food grudge match: Taco Bell is taking on the homeland of its namesake by reopening for the first time in 15 years in Mexico.

  Wall Street advanced Tuesday as investors optimistically awaited the earnings season's unofficial kickoff with Alcoa Inc.'s report and minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting.