Stocks advance … Chrysler recall … Victory for US farmers

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are on track for the first gain after three straight losses. They’ve been higher in afternoon trading. Investors are focusing on a slate of corporate earnings, including better-than-expected results from Citibank and Domino’s Pizza. Airline stocks also are among the big risers.

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler is recalling more than 184,000 SUVs worldwide because a wiring problem could disable their air bags and seat belt pretensioners. Those are the devices that tighten belts during a crash to hold occupants in place. The recall involves the 2014 model year Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee. Most are in the U.S., but more than 57,000 SUVs are in Canada, Mexico and elsewhere.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Trade Organization is siding with U.S. poultry and egg farmers in a dispute with India. The WTO had ruled against Indian restrictions on U.S. imports of meat and eggs that were intended to prevent avian influenza from entering that country. The restrictions began in 2007. The United States argued in a 2012 challenge that there was no scientific basis for the restrictions and that they were inconsistent with international guidelines. Officials say there has not been an outbreak of high-pathogenic avian influenza in the United States since 2004.

WILMINGTON, DEL. (AP) — The parent company of Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal is asking a bankruptcy court judge to let it terminate its contract with the union. A lawyer for Trump Entertainment Resorts told a judge in Wilmington, Delaware today that the company needs immediate relief from pension and health insurance costs in order to keep the casino open past mid-November. The union has offered $2.4 million in annual concessions, but the company wants $14.6 million a year in givebacks.

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic. The foundation says the money will be used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ebola response effort in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the world where Ebola is a threat.

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