US stocks start higher; boosted by corporate deals By: CNBC.com News July 16, 2014 at 09:30 AM EDT U.S. stocks climbed on Wednesday, with investor sentiment lifted by corporate earnings, deals and better-than-expected data on growth in China. Read More >> Related Stocks: Apple AutoNation Baker Hughes Inc Bank of America BlackRock Canadian Pacific Railway Limited Danaher Corp Ericsson ADR General Electric Google, Inc. Honeywell International International Business Machines Interpublic GroupCompanies Kansas City Southern KeyCorp Morgan Stanley News Corporation Novartis Ag Novartis Ag ADR Philip Morris International Seagate Technology Plc Sentinelone Inc Cl A Sherwin-Williams Time Warner Twenty-First Century Fox UnitedHealth Group VF Corp