David Becker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. AT&T reported earnings that beat analysts’ expectations Tuesday after the bell. Here’s how the company did compared to what Wall Street expected: EPS: 79 cents vs. 73 cents, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $39.84 …

“I saw all of the black and brown faces on the plaza of Lincoln Center,” she said. “In my lifetime, I haven’t seen that happen ever again. I thought, we have to revitalize this competition, but it has to be more than just a competition.” Photo A jump-in at a …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images An Amazon.com employee lifts a box from a conveyor at the company’s fulfillment center in Tracy, California. Even after Amazon’s big rally this year, a Wall Street analyst still believes the stock can go higher based on some interesting analysis of Google …

The CBOE Volatility Index dropped to its lowest level since December 1993 on Tuesday, and history shows it could mark a tremendous buying opportunity for stocks. According to Brian Stutland of Equity Armor Investments, the so-called fear index has only closed below the 10 level on 24 trading days in …

Photo Rebecca Krohn and Jared Angle in Justin Peck’s “The Decalogue” at New York City Ballet. Ms. Krohn will retire this fall, but plans to remain with the company as a ballet mistress. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times New York City Ballet on Tuesday announced the fashion designers who …

Chip Somodevilla | Staff | Getty Images Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci talks with reporters during ‘Regional Media Day’ at the White House July 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump’s new communications director says he’s prepared to clean house in order to stop information leaks which …

Mike Mergen | Bloomberg | Getty Images A pharmacy technician fills a prescription inside a Wal-Mart store in Trevose, Pa. Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks said he expects a presidential executive order targeting drug prices this year. Ricks said on an earnings call Tuesday that he expects President Donald Trump …

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics are making some real money for stock investors, and beating the market. The Global X Robotics and Artificial Intelligence ETF (BOTZ) is up 30 percent this year and the ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index (ROBO) is up 25 percent. That’s roughly three times …

Dadang Tri | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker stands in above a stockpile of copper-gold concentrate from Freeport McMoRan Inc.’s Grasberg copper and gold mine at the company’s processing facility in the port of Amamapare, Papua province, Indonesia, on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Mining stocks led the S&P 500 …

Photo Matt Groening, at Comic-Con on Saturday. He said in a statement that his new show, “Disenchantment,” would “be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots.” Credit Mike Coppola/Getty Images First Springfield, now Dreamland. Matt Groening, the …