The best-performing stocks in the Nasdaq on Wednesday included Splunk, Expedia, and Fox Corporation, among others.

Vodafone traded near the top of the European market Tuesday as the world's second-largest mobile phone company said it would slash costs and reorganize the ownership of its communications towers after disappointing investors with a move to freeze the company's dividend growth in order to focus on debt reduction following its $22 billion purchase of Liberty Global assets earlier this year.

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U.S. stock futures point lower as investors await the next round of trade talks between the U.S. and China; Home Depot reports earnings; 'head tax' opposed by Amazon is passed in Seattle.

The Dow jumps over 180 points on Wednesday.

In the energy sector, 25% of the companies covered by Morningstar garnered fair-value increases of more than 10%.

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Nvidia stock is being bought on the dip. Here's how traders should approach it now.

"Combining our assets and talented team with Broadcom's existing enterprise software portfolio creates a remarkable enterprise software player," said VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram.