Elliott Management, the hedge fund founded by billionaire investor Paul Singer, disclosed in a regulatory filing that it owned 67.1 million shares of aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. as of Dec. 31, after owning just an option to buy 2 million shares at the end of September. Among other new stakes the hedge fund took during the fourth quarter, it now owns 8.94 million shares of CenterPoint Energy Inc. , and an option to buy 1.07 million more shares; it took a new 6.7 million share stake in Hewlett Packard Enterprises Co. ; it now holds just under 1 million shares of LivePerson Inc. and it took a new 5 million share stake in Symantec Corp. . Meanwhile, Elliott sold its entire 3.2 million share stake in Comcast Corp. ; sold off its 1.6 million shares of Juniper Networks Inc. ; and sold its 3.7 million share stake in 21st Century Fox Inc. .
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