NEW YORK / AP US stocks rose on Wednesday as December auto sales start to roll in. General Motors and Ford are trading higher. That’s helping consumer-focused companies. The market is building on its gains from the day before. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average added 30 points, or 0.2 percent, to 19,911 as of 10 a.m. Eastern ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia won’t stop JPMorgan Chase & Co. from conducting private-sector business in the country, a finance ministry official said, days after the government severed commercial ties with the US bank for cutting its assessment of the nation’s stocks. “For business here, JPM is still allowed to operate just like other banks,” Suahasil Nazara, head of the fiscal agency ...

  Bloomberg China’s benchmark money-market rate declined the most in two years after the central bank took measures to ease a liquidity crunch. The benchmark seven-day repurchase rate fell 37 basis points to 2.30 percent, according to weighted average prices from the National Interbank Funding Center. The average interbank repo rate surged to a 20-month high in December on a ...