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Wells Fargo warns of tough times ahead; Alcoa sinks on earnings miss; Ford closes factory amid falling sales

The company posted adjusted earnings per share of 32 cents on revenue of $5.21 billion for the fiscal third quarter, missing analysts’ estimates on both the top and bottom lines. This was the last earnings before Alcoa splits into two companies. Wells Fargo (WFC) – The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Wells Fargo managers pushed branch employees to come up with new ways to get customers to sign up for potentially costly overdraft protection.

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Alcoa, Apple, Twitter, Fiat Chrysler and Illumina are among the stocks to watch.

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Why Facebook and Google are siding with Samsung in its Supreme Court battle with Apple

The Supreme Court will hear a long-running corporate battle on Tuesday over how much Samsung should have to pay its rival Apple (AAPL) for copying the iPhone’s design. The dispute has attracted over a dozen amicus curiae (“friend of the Court” briefs) arguing the case has wide-ranging implications. One of those briefs came from major tech companies—including Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Dell and Hewlett Packard (HPQ)—which asserted the dispute “presented a question of enormous practical importance” to them.