Stocks mostly higher...Ride-share discounts for elections...Shareholder activist dies

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mostly higher as Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway leads gains in financial companies, while energy companies rise along with the prices of oil and natural gas. Technology and internet companies continue to struggle as Apple drops again. Asian indexes fell following weak economic data in China and a lack of progress in trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ride-share companies are capitalizing on voter enthusiasm ahead of tomorrow's midterm elections by offering free or discounted rides to the polls in shared cars, bikes and scooters. They say they are aiming to remove what many consider a barrier to voting: lack of transportation. Lyft is offering half-price rides to people in need and free rides to people in underserved communities. Uber is offering $10 off a ride to the polls across the country.

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The company that owns the Papa Gino's pizza parlor and D'Angelo sandwich shop chains has confirmed it has closed about 95 locations throughout New England, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reached an agreement to sell the business. The announcement by PGHC Holdings Inc. came a day after many employees showed up for work to find the restaurants closed without explanation.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York has tossed out an investment banker's insider trading conviction, saying there were procedural errors at his trial. Prosecutors must now decide whether to seek a retrial of Sean Stewart. He served more than a year of his three-year prison sentence before he was released in June.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The brash shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis, who owned stock in more than 80 public companies and rarely failed to make her presence known at corporate-investor meetings, has died. She was 89. Davis attended shareholders meetings religiously for decades. She fought for lower CEO pay, more disclosure on political spending and a multitude of other shareholder causes.

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