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B. Riley Financial Inc.’s stock rallied 26% on Friday after Bryant R. Riley, the founder, chairman, co-chief executive and largest shareholder of the troubled investment bank, made an offer to buy the stock he doesn’t already own for $7 a share.

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‘Consumers vote with their wallets, and household spending overall is still in solid shape,’ one economist noted.

Columbia University professor Alan Taylor will replace Jonathan Haskel as a member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee.

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Alphabet’s stock needs to rally 1.5% Friday to be up on the week and not set a new record weekly losing streak.

Since February 2023, analysts at D.A. Davidson have been tracking prices online for a representative set of products across their retail coverage.

Construction on new U.S. homes fell 6.8% in July, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The long-running trend of investors moving money out of active equity funds and into passive funds is on pause as individual stocks start trading less in sync with other equities.

Oil futures were lower Friday morning, giving up a weekly gain as worries about demand proved persistent, overshadowing fears of a retaliatory strike by Iran on Israel.