Stocks end with slight gains...Feds probe Fiat Chrysler...Netflix subscriber growth slows in Q2

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WASHINGTON (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ending the trading day with slight gains as investors looked past a failed coup attempt in Turkey and focused on corporate deals and earnings reports. Technology stocks led the way higher after Japan's SoftBank said it was buying British chip designer ARM Holdings. Bank stocks rose after Bank of America turned in better-than-expected earnings results. All told, the Dow industrials rose 16, the S&P gained 5 and the Nasdaq increased 26.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo's latest earnings report leaves no doubt the internet company is stuck in a downward spiral. The company managed to beat Wall Street's limited expectations for revenue in the April-June quarter. But after subtracting commissions paid to its partners, Yahoo said its revenue fell 19 percent from a year earlier, while its loss widened to $440 million. Investors have been waiting to hear about the company's plans. Monday was the deadline for final offers from prospective buyers.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is running into trouble as the internet video service wrestles with slowing U.S. subscriber growth, an ambitious international expansion amid stiffening competition. The challenge has come into sharper focus with the release of Netflix's second-quarter earnings. Netflix only added 160,000 U.S. subscribers from April through June -- the lowest U.S. customer gain that the company has posted during that three-month period since splitting up its video-streaming and DVD-by-mail services five years ago.

DETROIT (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Fiat Chrysler violated securities laws by getting dealers to falsely report sales in order to inflate the company's numbers. The company says in a statement that it's cooperating with an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and that it has received similar inquiries from the Justice Department. The probe apparently stems from a lawsuit filed in January by the Illinois-based Napleton dealership group alleging that competing dealers were given thousands of dollars to report false sales.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have fallen for the second straight month. The Treasury Department says total foreign holdings dropped 0.5 percent in May to $6.21 trillion after slipping 0.8 percent to $6.24 trillion in April. Japan, the second-biggest foreign owner of Treasury securities, reduced its holdings by 0.8 percent to $1.13 trillion. China, the biggest foreign investor in Treasurys, increased its holdings slightly to $1.24 trillion.