Some diabetes drugs may increase risk of bladder cancer

An increased risk of bladder cancer is linked to the use of pioglitazone, a medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the?Canadian Medical Association Journal?

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People with type 2 diabetes are at risk of several types of cancer, including a 40% increased risk of bladder cancer, compared to people without diabetes.

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Previous studies have shown a higher incidence of bladder cancer in people taking pioglitazone, a type of thiazolidinedione.

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To determine whether there is a link between pioglitazone use and bladder cancer, researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies involving over 2.6 million patients.

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"We observed an increased risk of bladder cancer associated with the use of thiazolidinediones," writes Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, with coauthors. "In particular, use of pioglitazone was associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer based on a pooled estimate from three cohort studies involving more than 1.7 million individuals."

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The researchers also looked at a possible association with rosiglitazone, another type of thiazolidinedione, but did not see an effect.

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"Although the absolute risk of bladder cancer associated with pioglitazone was small, other evidence-based treatments for type 2 diabetes may be equally effective and do not carry a risk of cancer," conclude the authors.

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"This study quantifies the association between pioglitazone use and bladder cancer and may help inform decisions around safer use of pioglitazone in individuals with type 2 diabetes."

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Source:?Canadian Medical Association Journal?

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Factory orders rise more than expected in May

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Hungarian MOL Buys Czech Pap Oil Stations

MOL Group, already present on the Czech fuel market via its subsidiary Slovnaft, will bring its retail fuel market share to nearly 5%.

Hungarian oil and gas major MOL Group has announced it will buy Bohemia Realty and PAP Oil, two companies that own and operate 124 filling stations under Pap Oil brand in the Czech Republic (with a 4% retail market share) for an undisclosed price.

?The investment is in line with MOL Group?s strategy to improve our presence and increase the retail market share in the supply radius of our refineries and increases further the synergies within the downstream segment,? the company said in a statement.

MOL Group is already present on the Czech fuel market via its subsidiary Slovnaft ?esk? republika, which owns 25 service stations under Slovnaft brand, representing a 0.7% retail market share. Following the successful closing of the transaction MOL Group will operate 149 retail stations throughout the country with an approximate combined retail fuel market share of close to 5% and will become the fifth largest company by the number of filling stations, it said.

The Hungarian group is also active in the retail and wholesale trade of petroleum products on the Czech market; Slovnaft ?esk? wholesale market share is 18%. MOL Group said its aim is to further pursue organic and inorganic opportunities in order to achieve at least a 10% fuel retail market share in the medium term.

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European market rally runs out of steam

People watch the electric stock index display of a securities firm in Tokyo Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Asian stock markets were boosted Wednesday by hopes European central bankers will buoy economic growth with new stimulus measures. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.5 percent to 9,111.66. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

People watch the electric stock index display of a securities firm in Tokyo Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Asian stock markets were boosted Wednesday by hopes European central bankers will buoy economic growth with new stimulus measures. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.5 percent to 9,111.66. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Wednesday, July 4, 2012 in Shanghai, China. Global stocks were muted Wednesday in holiday-thinned trade as markets looked to European central bankers for new steps to buoy sluggish economic growth. (AP Photo)

(AP) ? European stocks gave up some of their recent gains Wednesday as investors remained cautious on a day Wall Street was closed for July 4 celebrations and ahead of key economic news in coming days.

Markets have enjoyed one of their best three-day runs in months as investors cheered Friday's agreement by the leaders of the 17 euro countries to allow Europe's bailout fund to capitalize banks directly and to buy bonds of imperiled countries.

However, with the eurozone economy showing signs of heading back into recession, the crisis has the potential to flare up again. Mounting concerns over the state of the U.S. economic recovery are also keeping sentiment in check, especially ahead of Friday's closely-watched nonfarm payrolls report for June. The payrolls data often set the market tone for a week or two after their release.

"If the rally in equities is to last into this month and beyond, then the significant measures of economic strength, such as non-farm payrolls, must be seen to stabilize," said David White, a trader at Spreadex.

Before the payrolls data, markets have a couple of key central bank policy statements to digest, notably from the European Central Bank, which is expected on Thursday to reduce its main borrowing rate below 1 percent for the first time ever. A services sector survey Wednesday from financial information company Markit added to the prevailing view that the eurozone is heading back to recession.

The Bank of England is also expected to do more to help the British economy, which is already in recession, at its meeting on Thursday. The consensus view is that it will pump another 50 billion pounds into the economy.

"There is plenty of scope for disappointment given the high expectations, so traders will be cautious ahead of the meetings, and also as we approach non-farm payrolls," said David Morrison, senior market strategist at GFT Markets.

In Europe, Germany's DAX closed down 0.2 percent at 6,564.80 while the CAC-40 in France fell 0.1 percent to 3,267.75. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares lost 0.1 percent to 5,684.47.

The Athens stock exchange bucked the trend, jump 4.9 percent, hopes that Greece's new conservative-led government will ease the effects of a major recession on business.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' government will in two days issue its first major policy statement on how it intends to deal with the country's crushing debt crisis. International debt inspectors are in Athens to examine the country's finances. Based on that report, Greece and its fellow eurozone countries will discuss if and how to ease the country's pace of austerity measures.

The euro was down 0.6 percent at $1.2536, while oil prices gave up some ground amid the softer tone in Europe ? benchmark oil for August delivery was down 66 cents at $87.00 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Earlier in Asia, stocks ended mostly higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4 percent to 9,104.17 and South Korea's Kospi gained 0.4 percent to 1,874.45. China's Shanghai Composite fell 0.1 percent to 2,227.31 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 0.1 percent at 19,709.75.

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Romney takes summer break before big campaign push

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) ? It's a family tradition that spans a decade, as Mitt Romney's clan ? all 30 of them ? gathers at his New England lakeside compound for a week of home-cooked meals, sporting events and ice cream outings.

Only this summer, things are a little different: The patriarch is the Republican candidate challenging President Barack Obama and there's a Secret Service detail in tow everywhere Romney goes.

Nevertheless, the former Massachusetts governor is sticking to his routine. He attended Sunday church, let loose on Monday with a little jet skiing and on Monday night he was eating ice cream in town before piloting his boat back home to his lakefront estate. He walked barefoot with his grandchildren, posed for family photos, and visited with friends ? just as he has done every other summer. For Romney, this week is a welcome opportunity to unwind from the campaign trail while reflecting on the biggest decision he'll make during this campaign: choosing a running mate.

"It's just so nice to have everybody together," his wife, Ann, said after church on Sunday. "We never get to see them all anymore."

Her husband has been spending most of his time traveling the country raising money and campaigning against Obama. His wife and sons occasionally join him, but they keep separate campaign schedules of their own. This weeklong vacation will likely be the last real break Romney gets before the GOP convention in late August ? it's where he will accept his party's nomination ? kicks off the frenzied sprint to Election Day.

So he seems to be making the most of it.

Romney spent Monday morning lounging on the beach at the compound a few miles outside of Wolfeboro, N.H., as his grandchildren played in the sand. Then, he and his wife climbed on a jet ski on Lake Winnipesaukee. Ann drove one of the family Sea Doos while Romney sat behind her wearing a life preserver over a T-shirt, shrugging his shoulders and grinning at the reporters who trailed him in a pontoon boat. His Secret Service detail kept watch from a gray boat with enormous outboard engines.

In the evening, Romney and his clan took their two boats into town for some ice cream at Bailey's Bubble, an ice cream shop that's operated since at least the 1930s. Local residents snapped photos as several of the grandchildren posed in neon t-shirts from the shop, which has been operating for decades. His usually coifed hair windblown, a tanned, relaxed Romney then crossed Main Street back to his waiting boats.

"You all have your life jackets?" Romney asked the many grandchildren who climbed aboard before he untied the lines and drove the boat away from the town's public dock himself.

Romney's first trip to the tiny, centuries-old town of Wolfeboro ? decades ago, with his father, George Romney ? was to visit the family of hotel magnate J.W. Marriott, also longtime Wolfeboro vacationers. Sunday night, Nancy and Dick Marriott dropped by to visit the Romneys after fleeing a Washington home that was still without power after the weekend's storms.

Like the Romneys, the Marriotts are Mormons, and in the summer both families attend services at the same small, nondescript branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Only the Romneys attended the service Sunday, with their family making up nearly a third of the congregation.

Romney sat next to his wife, with grandchildren occupying the rest of the row. He sang along during the service's three hymns, holding his iPad underneath his navy blue hymnal. Some of the kids ? they range in age from a few weeks old to 16 years ? grew restless during the long service. At different points, several walked over to receive a kind smile and quiet word from their grandfather. At one point, Romney took charge of a bag of colored cereal, offering the food to a grinning blond toddler.

After the service's first hour, some of the children headed home ? but not Mitt and Ann Romney. They stayed for at least part if not all of the two additional hours of meeting time after the sacrament service, which offers bread and water instead of bread and wine. That's a variation of the communion service that allows for the Mormon prohibition against alcohol.

The church service aside, Romney's newly heightened political status threatens to transform Wolfeboro, a quaint, classic resort town of about 6,000 people.

Small restaurants, clothing stores and ice cream shops ? some, they say, in operation for a century or more ? line Main Street, where during the summer the traffic backs up past the grocery store where Romney sometimes shops. If it becomes a presidential summer destination, it could face the same development and crowding issues that have confronted Kennebunkport, Maine, where President George H.W. Bush's family has a compound.

In past years, Romney has gone running by himself down the private driveway that leads to his 6,700-square-foot, six-bedroom home. The home and the 2.2 acres it sits on are worth $3.5 million; the surrounding land the Romneys have purchased, as well as the boat garage, are worth millions more. The house is easily seen from the water of Lake Winnipesaukee, with a side facing the lake and lounge chairs lined up along the beach.

The candidate keeps a 29-foot Sea Ray boat in the enormous three-boat garage outside of his lakefront estate. He also has a small Boston Whaler, two of the Sea Doo water skis and a Malibu water ski boat. In past summers, he's been spotted water skiing on the lake.

Perhaps the only sign that something's different this summer is the security. Law enforcement boats are parked just off the compound's beach. A Secret Service agent sat quietly behind the family in church on Sunday. And, when Romney travels to town, instead of riding a bicycle, he's in a black SUV flanked by security cars.

This year, questions about whom Romney will choose as his vice presidential running mate hang over his vacation.

The Republican National Convention is drawing closer, and Republicans are speculating that the candidate may be spending part of his summer meeting with potential vice presidential running mates.

Fueling the talk is the fact that Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, whom many observers consider a top contender, will be in New Hampshire next weekend for a Republican fundraiser in Concord. Another potential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, has visited the house before: He and his wife shared a meal with the Romneys before Pawlenty endorsed his former rival's presidential bid.

For now, there's a sense of normalcy to this vacation.

On Sunday evening, Romney sat with two of his sons on the deck above the lawn on the back of the house, relaxing while his eldest son, Tagg, held one of his twins in his arms. Golf carts ferried family members up the hill and past the boat house, and just one or two Secret Service agents were visible through the trees.

No matter who wins in November, it will be different next summer.

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Associated Press staff photographer Charles Dharapak contributed to this report.

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Will researchers solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance?

A team of researchers hopes to locate Amelia Earhart's plane off the coast of an island called?Nikumaroro. Promising pieces of 1930's clothing and cosmetic products have been found there before.?

By Malia Mattoch McManus,?Reuters / July 2, 2012

Ric Gillespie, right, founder of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, watches equipment testing alongside Wolfgang Burnside from aboard a ship at port in Honolulu. Gillespie is leading a month-long voyage to find plane wreckage from Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra, which disappeared over the South Pacific 75 years ago.

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Seeking to chronicle Amelia Earhart's fate 75 years after she disappeared over the Pacific, researchers prepared on Monday to look for wreckage of her airplane near a remote island where they believe the famed U.S. aviator died as a castaway.

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Organizers hope the expedition will conclusively solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century - what became of Earhart after she vanished during an attempt to become the first pilot, man or woman, to circle the globe around the equator.

A recent flurry of clues point to the possibility that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ended up marooned on the tiny uninhabited island of Nikumaroro, part of the Pacific archipelago Republic of Kiribati."

The public wants evidence, a smoking gun, that this is the place where Amelia Earhart's journey ended," said Richard Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). "That smoking gun is Earhart's plane.

"The group's research team had planned to set off by boat on Monday from Hawaii on a 1,800-mile voyage to Nikumaroro accompanied by the technicians from a U.S. Navy contractor called Phoenix International who recovered "black-box" flight-data recorders from an Air France crash from the floor of the Atlantic last year.

But the departure was postponed for a day, until Tuesday, because of a delay in the arrival of a Kiribati customs official who is to accompany the expedition, said Stephanie Buttrill, a spokeswoman for the group. The team will spend 10 days at the search site, plus 16 days at sea traveling to and from the island.

Previous missions to Nikumaroro have unearthed tantalizing evidence that Earhart was there, including a cosmetic bottle from the 1930s that appeared to be jar of a once-popular brand of anti-freckle cream.

Also found were a clothing zipper from the '30s, pieces of a woman's compact, a bottle of hand lotion, parts of a woman's shoe and a man's shoe, a bone-handled pocket knife of the type Earhart carried and human bone fragments.

"We've found artifacts of an American woman castaway from the 1930s, but we haven't found anything with her name on it," said Gillespie. "We've tried to get contact DNA from things that were touched, and it didn't work. The environment was too destructive. The recovered bone samples were too small. The logical thing is the airplane."

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New-look Dior blooms at Paris couture

Dior blanketed a mansion in fresh-cut flowers Monday to fete its new designer Raf Simons and his playful, modern spin on the house's iconic silhouette on day one of the Paris haute couture shows.

The fashion galaxy had been bubbling with excitement to see the avant-garde Belgian's debut at Dior, more than a year after its flamboyant frontman John Galliano was sacked in disgrace over a racist outburst.

Sharon Stone, Marion Cotillard and Isabelle Huppert were among the A-listers there for the show, set in five opulent rooms bedecked wall-to-ceiling with a thick canopy of flowers -- a million buds in total -- each in a different hue.

Workers toiled through the night to display the white orchids, red roses, blue delphiniums, yellow goldenrods, and for the "Christian Dior" room pink roses and mixed garden flowers in a nod to the house founder's passion for the floral.

For the clothes too, the 44-year-old Simons said he looked to the house's 1950s roots, when the couturier was at its helm, taking the "architecture" of his classic silhouettes and reworking them for a modern woman.

The Dior "bar suit" -- a pencil skirt and jacket with a nipped waist and a flare at the hips, called a basque -- was suggested in slender black pantsuits, in bustiers, on coats and bare-shoulder dresses with structured, flared skirts.

For the past year Galliano's former right-hand man Bill Gaytten had kept the Dior ateliers ticking over -- and sales buoyant -- with polished looks built on trademark Dior codes, but fashion-lovers were hoping for something more.

Judging by the crush of people pressing to congratulate him after the show -- including top designers Marc Jacobs, Alber Elbaz and fashion veteran Pierre Cardin -- Simons did not disappoint.

"There was all of Dior's fragility, and Raf's modernity," approved Elbaz, Lanvin's star designer, while Vogue's creative director Grace Coddington told AFP she "thought it was really beautiful".

"And my expectations are always very high," she smiled.

"It takes me back to my 20s," Cardin -- who turned 90 on Monday and was Dior's very first employee when the couture house opened in 1947 -- said as he embraced the young designer.

"He is a true disciple of Dior," Cardin told AFP. "He is respectful of the house. But with time he also has to be himself if he wants to be a great couturier. It has to be recognisably his work."

Dior's owner Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury empire, said Simons was given "complete freedom".

"I told him, 'Give us your version, you imagination of what Dior means today'," said the tycoon.

For cocktail time, Simons matched bare-back dresses of fluid silk crepe, in fuchsia or trademark Dior red, with black or navy cigarette pants.

A band of electric blue silk was draped bustier-like over the breasts, joined at the back with a panel of coloured embroidery, worn over black wool pants.

And for chillier nights Dior's woman could step into midnight blue dresses of mink and astrakhan fur.

From blacks and deep blues, the palette swept up via intricate floral embroidery, to the palest pinks and blues, like on a show-stopping series of ball gowns fully embroidered with downy feathers.

The result won a ringing endorsement from the celebrities present.

"We are very lucky to have this very intellectual designer with us," said Stone, one of the faces of the luxury brand like Cotillard who found the show "sublime, very inspired."

But former top model Ines de la Fressange was more nuanced, judging the look: "graphic, romantic but with a bit of a vintage side it."

"It's honestly done, but very reasonable, quite solemn," she said.

Catering to no more than 200 of the world's richest women, haute couture is a protected appellation in France, awarded based on strict criteria such as the amount of work carried out by hand and in-house.

Two dozen houses will be sending out their one-off creations over three days of exclusive shows, with Chanel and Givenchy to follow on Tuesday and Jean-Paul Gaultier on Wednesday.

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Design firm's video offers a glimpse of the touchscreen webOS phone that never was

Well, it looks like there's still a few surprises left from HP's brief foray into webOS hardware. As webOS Nation has discovered, the design firm Transparent House posted a brief clip of a device described as "WindsorNot" some eight months ago, which is very clearly a touchscreen-only webOS smartphone. As the site notes, that appears to be the very same device that had previously turned up in leaked photos under the codename "Stingray," and it estimates that the phone has the same 3.6-inch screen as the Pre 3. Details are scarce beyond that, but you can get a good look at what might have been in the video after the break -- not to mention yet another look at the unreleased TouchPad Go (a.k.a. Opal) on Transparent House's Vimeo page linked below.

Update: Looks like this one is remaining elusive. The video has now unfortunately been pulled.

Update 2: We've removed the still from the video at the request of Transparent House. The image above is the previously leaked photo of the device.

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Carmakers report strong June sales, easing worries

FILE- In this Sunday, June 24, 2012, file photo a new Dodge RAM 1500 pickup truck is for sale at an auto dealership in Springfield, Ill. Chrysler reported Tuesday, July 3, 2012, that U.S. sales rose 20 percent, its best June in five years, thanks to demand across its lineup (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE- In this Sunday, June 24, 2012, file photo a new Dodge RAM 1500 pickup truck is for sale at an auto dealership in Springfield, Ill. Chrysler reported Tuesday, July 3, 2012, that U.S. sales rose 20 percent, its best June in five years, thanks to demand across its lineup (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE- In this Sunday, June 24, 2012, file photo Dodge cars are for sale at an auto dealership in Springfield, Ill. Chrysler reported Tuesday, July 3, 2012, that U.S. sales rose 20 percent, its best June in five years, thanks to demand across its lineup (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE- In this Sunday, June 24, 2012, file photo a new Dodge Challenger is for sale at an auto dealership in Springfield, Ill. Chrysler reported Tuesday, July 3, 2012, that U.S. sales rose 20 percent, its best June in five years, thanks to demand across its lineup (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE- In this Sunday, June 24, 2012, file photo the Dodge logo is seen on a Dodge Charger for at an auto dealership in Springfield, Ill. Chrysler reported Tuesday, July 3, 2012, that U.S. sales rose 20 percent, its best June in five years, thanks to demand across its lineup (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

(AP) ? From mini cars to monster pickups, sales of new cars and trucks surged in June and eased concerns that Americans would be turned off by slower hiring and other scary headlines.

Automakers sold nearly 1.3 million cars and trucks in June, up 22 percent from the same month last year. Chrysler posted its best June in five years. Sales soared at Volkswagen, which is on track for its best year in the U.S. since 1973.

The results allayed fears that growth would stall after a strong start to 2012. Earlier this spring, sales were on track to reach 14.5 million this year, boosted by mild weather and the post-earthquake return of Japanese cars to dealers. But the pace dropped to 13.8 million in May, as the stock market plunged and hiring slowed. In June, there was more bad news about jobs growth, and consumer confidence fell for the fourth straight month.

But buyers didn't go away. June's sales pace rose to 14.1 million, according to Autodata Corp. And if sales stay at that rate for all of 2012, it will be the industry's best year since 2007.

Falling gas prices, cheaper loans and new models like the Ford Escape and Dodge Dart drew buyers. A revived housing market lifted sales of pickups. And there was still plenty of demand from people who bought cars in the middle of the last decade and needed to replace them. Annual sales hit a high of 17 million in 2005, and those cars and trucks are now seven years old.

"If a family in Iowa's only mode of transportation is on the fritz, they are going to buy a replacement vehicle, even if Spain's economy is on the brink of collapse," says Alec Gutierrez, a senior market analyst at Kelley Blue Book.

Automakers also started their Independence Day promotions a little early and that juiced sales at the end of the month.

"In the last two weeks we really went all-out," says Bill Underriner, who sells Volvo, Buick, Honda and Hyundai cars in Billings, Mont.

Colorful ads with holiday deals excited buyers, says Jessica Caldwell, a senior analyst with pricing site Edmunds.com. The Buick Verano small car ? one of Underriner's big sellers last month ? is now $239 per month for a two-year lease. That's $50 less than usual.

Low interest rates are making deals like the Verano's more attractive. The average interest rate on a 60-month new-car loan is 4.5 percent, down from 6.98 percent two years ago, according to Bankrate.com. Credit availability is also improving.

"The affordability of cars is probably at an all-time high," Chrysler Group sales chief Reid Bigland said last week.

Falling gas prices meant buyers were more likely to consider bigger cars and SUVs in June, not just the small cars that sold well at the beginning of the year. Jeep Liberty SUV sales rose 50 percent and the Ford Explorer jumped 35 percent. Gas averaged $3.43 per gallon at the end of June, down 41 cents from the end of March.

Pickup truck sales also improved as home building perked up. Chrysler's Ram pickup sales rose 12 percent and sales of the Ford F-Series ? which has long been the country's best-selling vehicle ? rose 11 percent.

At Chrysler, sales of the tiny Fiat 500 and Chrysler 300 large sedan more than doubled from a year earlier, helping the company to a 20-percent gain for the month.

General Motors' sales rose 16 percent, with strong demand for the Chevy Malibu midsize sedan and Volt electric car.

Ford's overall sales rose 7 percent. The Escape small SUV posted its best month ever after a new version of the popular vehicle went on sale.

The sales were welcome news to investors, who have beaten down GM and Ford shares in recent days over losses in Europe. Ford's stock climbed 2 percent to close at $9.60, while GM's stock jumped 6 percent to $20.67.

Toyota's sales rose 60 percent for the month while Honda's climbed 49 percent, but that wasn't surprising. Last year, both companies had little inventory at U.S. dealerships because of the earthquake in Japan. Now, they're taking back sales that their rivals gained last year. The Chevrolet Cruze, for example, was the top-selling car in the country June 2011, but its sales dropped 24 percent last month. Sales of its Japanese rivals, the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla, jumped more than 40 percent each.

Sales would have been slower if carmakers hadn't sold so many vehicles to government, commercial and daily rental fleets, says Jesse Toprak, vice president of market intelligence for the car buying site TrueCar.com. A little more than a third of all the cars GM sold went to fleets, up substantially from last year. Ford also sold a third of its vehicles to fleets, but that was about the same percentage as last year.

GM said that was just the way some sales were timed, and its fleet sales should fall this month.

Toprak thinks that even if sales soften a little, they're still on track to reach 14.4 million by the end of the year. That's better than last year's 12.8 million, and it's far better than the 30-year low of 10.4 million during the recession in 2009.

"This is a healthy and sustainable rate of recovery," he said.

Other automakers reporting Tuesday:

? Nissan's sales rose 28 percent. Sales of the new Versa mini car and Quest minivan more than doubled.

? Volkswagen sales rose 34 percent on strong demand for two redesigned cars: the Beetle and the Passat.

? Hyundai's sales rose 8 percent. Sales of the new Accent jumped 57 percent, while sales of the luxury Equus sedan rose 61 percent.

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AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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