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Carl Icahn sued Dell earlier this month and had said VMWare should be worth $300 per share.

Most Asian stock markets gained Thursday after Wall Street fell and Britain's Cabinet endorsed a draft agreement to leave the European Union.

Struggling department store chain J.C. Penney reported Thursday that its third-quarter sales fell 5.3 percent while net income tumbled 20.8 percent.

Optimism over trade talks lift investor spirits.

GE has seen its stock value fall below the $8 mark for the first time since the financial crisis.

Two tech giants engage in some high-tech trash talking.

Energy companies led U.S. stocks broadly higher in early trading Wednesday, wiping out some of the market's losses from a day earlier.

Snap Inc. has received federal subpoenas related to a class-action lawsuit stemming from its 2017 initial public offering.

Shares in PG&E are trading at their lowest level in more than a decade with some Californians who have lost homes saying that the power company is at fault for the state's deadliest and most destructive wildfire.

Investor Warren Buffett's company picked up nearly 36 million shares of JP Morgan Chase stock in the third quarter and eliminated its stake in Walmart as part of a number of changes in its portfolio.

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Uber's net loss widened by $177 million in the third quarter as the ride-hailing giant continued to invest ahead of a planned public stock offering next year.

Technology companies and banks led stocks lower on a turbulent day on Wall Street, extending the market's slide to a fifth day.

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Crude remains in a bear market.

Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday, after the steepest drop in oil prices in more than three years put investors in a selling mood on Wall Street.

The big department store company also hiked its full-year guidance.

Stocks whacked in volatile trading session.

Investors allege that Snap misled the public about how competition from Facebook's Instagram service had affected the company's growth.

U.S. stock indexes were mostly higher in early trading Tuesday, erasing some of the losses from a steep, technology-driven sell-off a day earlier.