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20:05 EDT Fly Intel: Top five weekend stock stories - Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Google (GOOGL) has asked a California federal judge to pause his sweeping court order requiring it to open up its app store Play to greater competition, Reuters' Mike Scarcella reports. In a court filing on Friday night, Google said U.S. District Judge James Donato's injunction order, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, would harm the company and introduce "serious safety, security, and privacy risks into the Android ecosystem." The tech giant, a unit of Alphabet, asked Donato to stay the order while it pursues an appeal, the author says. 2. TSMC (TSM) is planning more plants in Europe with a focus on the market for artificial intelligence chips as the chipmaker expands its global footprint, Bloomberg's Jane Lanhee Lee and Annabelle Droulers report, citing a senior Taiwanese official. "They have started construction of the first fab in Dresden, they are already planning the next few fabs in the future for different market sectors as well," Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council Minister Wu Cheng-wen told Bloomberg TV in an interview aired on Monday. Wu did not specify a timeline for the Taiwanese chipmaker's further expansion in Europe. 3. You can't please all of the people all of the time, but Nu Holdings (NU) stock has done enough to capture the eye of both Warren Buffett and Cathie Wood, investors at polar extremes of the investing spectrum, Teresa Rivas writes in this week's edition of Barron's. The company is the owner of Nubank, Latin America's largest financial-technology bank focusing on the large population of underserved consumers. The growth portion of the equation comes from Nu's rapidly expanding profits, as users leapfrog from cash to the digital and credit age, while a recent pullback provides a more compelling valuation for new investors, the author says. With Nu stock up some 60% this year, to a recent $13.43, and trading at 24 times forward earnings, value investors might be wondering where they fit into the picture. Yet after a modest pullback at the end of September, that forward price/earnings ratio is well below its triple-digit average over the past five years, and not far off its low of just under 19 times, creating an attractive entry point, the publication adds. 4. Chinese electric carmaker BYD (BYDDF) expects to boost sales in Germany within six months, executive vice president Stella Li said in an interview published on Saturday, according to Reuters. BYD would gain a foothold in Germany in "less than half a year," Li told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. She criticized European Union tariffs on China-made electric vehicles from next month, which Germany had opposed, as a loss for the consumer, adding BYD would start producing cars by the end of 2025 in Hungary. 5. Cineverse and Icon Events' "Terrifier 3" won this weekend at the North American box office with an $18.2M debut from 1,922 theaters. The threequel had a larger budget than its predecessor, which was on a $250,000 budget and grossed an astounding $15.7M. Donald Trump feature "The Apprentice" - which the former President had tried to block from appearing in theaters - placed number 10 with an $1.6M debut.
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