Asia-Pacific stocks mostly rose Tuesday, July 15, with shares in Hong Kong climbing for the fourth session.

The Nasdaq is up 33.86 points or 0.2% at 20,619.38, the Dow is down 10.50 points or less than a tenth of a% at 44,361.01 and the S&P 500 1.51 points or less than a tenth of a% at 6,258.24.

Panasonic celebrates the opening of its new US factory for electric car round cells in De Soto near Kansas City. This is the ...