US stocks open higher on corporate deals

Published October 6, 2014 1:40pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening higher as investors welcome the latest batch of corporate deal news.

Hewlett-Packard rose 5 percent after the big technology company agreed to split in two companies.

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