Here are key updates on 2 of your buys

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TENNECO INC. $10 is a buy for aggressive investors. The stock (New York symbol TEN; Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 80.9 million; Market cap: $809.0 million; Dividend yield: 9.5%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.tenneco.com) lets you tap a leading maker of auto parts. Those products include emission and exhaust systems as well as shocks and struts. In May 2018, Tenneco acquired Federal-Mogul from financier Carl Icahn for $5.4 billion in cash and stock. As part of the acquisition, Tenneco announced that it would spin off the two firms’ combined aftermarket and ride-performance businesses into a separate company—called DRiV. It would focus on the sale of powertrain and exhaust parts. Tenneco has now told its investors it has postponed that spinoff until mid-2020. That’s mainly because it feels DRiV would struggle based on current conditions in the auto-parts market. The delay will give Tenneco’s new CEO, Brian Kesseler, more time to set up DRiV’s finances to ensure its success as an independent firm. That preparation should…