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Semiconductor-equipment maker Applied Materials Inc. is well positioned after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter results Thursday, analysts say.

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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.