Communications services companies fell as traders rotated out of growth sectors into value sectors.

Web media company Vice Media Group plans to go public through a nearly $3 billion merger with a blank-check firm would leave existing investors with control of the company, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Attorneys general from 44 states and territories urged Facebook to abandon plans to launch a version of Instagram for children, citing behavioral and privacy concerns about social media's effects on young people.

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