US stocks start higher on earnings and ahead of Fed By: CNBC.com News July 29, 2014 at 09:30 AM EDT U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday on earnings from corporations including Merck & Co., a day ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy decision. Read More >> Related Stocks: AMC Entertainment Holdings Agnico-Eagle Mines Akamai Technologies Allstate Corp Arcelor Mittal Astrazeneca Plc ADR Avon Products BAT Ball Corp Barclays Plc ADR Becton Dickinson Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp Boston Beer Company CBOE Global Markets Inc Colgate-Palmolive ConocoPhillips DIRECTV Delphi Automotive Plc Diageo Plc ADR Expedia Exxon Mobil Generac Holdings Inc Gopro Inc Cl A Humana Kraft Foods Group Marathon Petroleum MasterCard McKesson Corp Merck & Co MetLife Murphy Oil Newell Rubbermaid Occidental Petroleum Pfizer Procter & Gamble Public Storage Royal Dutch Shell Cl B ADR Sanofi-Aventis S.A. ADR Seagen Inc Sentinelone Inc Cl A Shutterfly Inc Sodastream Int Ltd Sony Corp Southern Co Sunpower Corp Taubman Centers The Carlyle Group Thomson Reuters Corporation Time Warner Cable United Parcel Service Western Digital Weyerhaeuser Co Whole Foods Market Willis Towers Watson Public Ltd Yelp Inc