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Sears Holdings has hired advisory firm M-III Partners to prepare a chapter 11 filing that could come as soon as this week.

SoftBank is in talks to take a majority stake in WeWork, an investment that could total between $15 billion and $20 billion.

Ackman said his activist hedge fund Pershing Square has built a roughly 1.1% stake in Starbucks.

Trian disclosed a stake in PPG and is said to own about 2.9% of the company.

Lennar is in talks with Stone Point Capital to sell the home builder's Rialto real-estate lending unit.

Google appealed the EU's $4.97 billion antitrust fine for allegedly abusing the dominance of its Android system for mobile phones.

Google launched new mobile and home gad gets leveraging its voice-controlled Google Assistant.

The S&P 500 fell 0.1% amid a broad selloff among materials firms. The Dow slipped 0.2% to 26430.57.

Sales at Volkswagen's namesake brand fell more than 18% last month.

HSBC will pay $765 million to settle claims it covered up risks tied to residential-mortgage products.

Exxon will put money toward promoting a national carbon tax as a way to address global warming.

McDonald's franchisees are considering a push to urge the firm to help improve profit at their restaurants.

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October 10, 2018 02:47 ET (06:47 GMT)

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