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Yellen, oil move Wall St.; Twitter changes; Amazon, Google hit the road

Stocks (^DJI^GSPC^IXIC) are trading higher as Wall Street focuses on congressional testimony from Fed Chair Janet Yellen and a surprise drop in U.S. oil (OIL) inventories. Keith Bliss of Cuttone & Co. joins us live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to discuss the markets.

To talk about some of the other stories that Yahoo Finance is keeping an eye on today, Alexis Christoforous is joined by Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer and Scott Rostan, president & founder at Training The Street.

Twitter moves

Twitter's (TWTR) got that tweaking itch. Last month, it was rumored the famed 140 character limit would be expanded to 10,000. Now, just ahead of earnings this afternoon, the social media promoter of brevity—and sometimes wit—announced another big change to its business model. But CEO Jack Dorsey is saying it's not such a big deal after all. We're talking about two new features that change how users see Tweets at the top of their feeds.

Amazon, Google delivery

Two of the biggest names in tech also want to become big names in delivery. Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon (AMZN) is looking to build a global delivery network that would compete with giants UPS (UPS) and FedEx (FDX). In the meantime, Google (GOOGL) has a new patent to build self-driving delivery trucks that would allow customers to open storage boxes built into the vehicles.

Big beer deal

And this is no small beer. Japan's Asahi has an agreement to buy the Grolsch and Peroni brands from Anheuser Busch InBev (BUD) for $2.8 billion. Those beers are actually owned by SABMiller, but the maker of Budweiser is buying SAB, and it needs to shed some brands in order to convince regulators to approve that $108 billion deal.

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