The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the other major stock indexes dipped around midday Friday, as Wall Street digested weaker-than-expected retail sales along with consumer sentiment data. Meanwhile, Applied Materials (AMAT) and Reddit (RDDT) were big movers on the stock market today. The Russell 2000 small-cap index outperformed with a gain of 0.3%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite gave back 0.4%.…
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