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Patriots aim to keep playoff hopes alive against struggling Cardinals
It hasn’t been an easy road, but the New England Patriots find themselves in playoff contention with five games left to play in the regular season. New England has battled multiple quarterback injuries and a rocky transition to a new offensive coordinator, but somehow sit at 6-6 entering Monday night’s game.
With a win against the Arizona Cardinals on Monday, the Patriots would move to 7-6, tying the team with the Los Angeles Chargers, who currently hold the final playoff spot in the AFC, and the New York Jets, who are on the outside looking in.
Mac Jones and Rhamondre Stevenson will look to take down a struggling Cardinals squad. Arizona comes into Monday’s game on a two-game losing streak. The team has struggled to find its footing all season, and sits at 4-8 on the year. Kyler Murray has once again put up solid numbers, though the Cardinals’ offense hasn’t been the juggernaut some expected. The return of DeAndre Hopkins has helped, as the team has scored at least 21 points in five of six games since the star receiver has returned from suspension.
Can Jones and the Patriots stay alive in a competitive AFC, or will the Cardinals play spoiler? Follow along with Yahoo Sports as we give the latest news, updates, injuries and scores as the Cardinals and Patriots go head-to-head on “Monday Night Football.”
Winter storm pummels western U.S. with snow before taking aim at the South, bringing a multi-day severe storm threat
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A large winter storm system slammed into the western US over the weekend, blanketing mountain areas with heavy snow before taking aim at the South, where it’s expected to bring severe weather, with strong winds, hail and tornadoes possible.
More than 15 million people in 14 states are under some sort of a winter weather alert as the powerful storm moves across the county.
The storm already brought avalanche warnings to parts of the West, shuttered major highways as conditions became icy and triggered flood watches.
The storm blanketed some mountain areas of drought-parched California with thick snow, including Soda Springs in the northern part of the state, which received 60 inches of snow in 48 hours.
A multi-day severe storm threat begins Monday for parts of the South and southern central US. A slight threat for severe weather has been issued for parts of western and central Kansas and Oklahoma into northwestern Texas.
The threat does, however, strengthen as the system heads east Tuesday, likely impacting a large swath of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. Areas including Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport in Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi, could see tornadoes, high wind gusts and damaging hail.
Additionally, the National Weather Service in Denver forecast whiteout and blizzard conditions for Tuesday in parts of the plains in Colorado.
To the east, residents in Fargo, North Dakota, are expected to see snowfall over 6 inches and will be under a winter storm watch from late Monday night until late Wednesday night. Duluth, Minnesota, could also see 6 inches of snow and will be under a winter storm watch starting Tuesday morning.
Though the storm is walloping some areas with severe weather, it’s forecast to track across drought-stricken areas, bringing much needed relief – including to the Mississippi River Valley area, where excessive rainfall is possible Wednesday.
In the Sierra Nevada, snow pack totals are already above average, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.
Winter storm warnings were in place overnight for the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, where an additional foot of snow could fall in the highest elevations before 4 a.m.
The storm already made for icy and dangerous conditions on key roadways, with authorities on Saturday closing down a long stretch of Interstate 80, from Colfax in Northern California to Stateline, Nevada, due to “blowing snow & near-zero visibility,” Caltrans said on Twitter.
The Tahoe Basin and the Eastern Sierra are seeing snowfall totals that are typically recorded later in the winter, in January.
“The snowpack is about 225% of normal, so it’s more than twice what we’d be expecting this time in December,” said Mark Deutschendorf, forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Reno.
“It looks a lot like Christmas out here,” Deutschendorf said. “It didn’t come with a lot of wind, and it stuck to everything. It’s like a picture postcard.”
While he noted the snow totals so far are impressive, Deutschendorf said he is “cautiously optimistic” about this precipitation putting a big dent in the state’s drought.
“We had a similar run of storms last year. We had a nice head start, and then January through March were incredibly dry,” Deutschendorf explained.
In California, 48 inches of snow fell in Twin Bridges in a 48-hour period, 46 inches fell in Tahoe-Donner, 45 inches in Donner Peak and 44 inches at Palsades Tahoe Ski Base.
“We’re Buried,” the Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort wrote on its website Sunday, sharing photos of thick snow covering the ski resort in Olympic Valley, California.
“This is definitely a storm to remember. We’ve now received 7.5 feet of snow since December 1st. Plus, in just 24 hours from Saturday morning to Sunday morning, we received more than 35 inches of snow — the 6th largest snowfall total in 24 hours that we have on record,” resort operators wrote.
And in Southern California, residents were under warnings and watches amid heavy rain and localized flooding.
Modern Warfare II Has You Aim Weapons At Unarmed Civilians
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II may nail its core gunplay and feature some standout characters across the board, but it also features some of the series’ most questionably awful depictions of violence and military power yet. One level in particular in which tensions rise between civilians and law enforcement stands out as profoundly tone deaf, and has been widely shared online as an example of the Call of Duty series at its most appalling and absurd.
In the level “Borderline,” you take on the role of Mexican military special forces following the trail of cartel members who are wrapped up in a broader escalating narrative about terrorism. The level barely stops for air before encouraging you to shoot at and kill people climbing the border wall into the United States. You then move through a residential area in Texas where armed citizens aren’t too thrilled to see you running through their yards and houses. The game asks you to “de-escalate civilians” with your aim button, and sure enough, pressing it results in you pointing your gun at them. There’s no unique animation or line of dialogue here. You don’t pull out a badge and say “please go inside.” You simply aim a weapon at their faces.
These scenes have become a topic of conversation and critique across the internet. A few days ago, popular political streamer Hasan Piker literally paused the game after “de-escalating” to comment on how remarkably awful this scenario is. As noted by Polygon, video essayist Jacob Geller also tweeted a video of the first de-escalation, which currently sits at a million views. This is far from an overlooked moment in a broader narrative.
“Borderline” asks you to do this three times. On the third, despite your efforts to (ahem) “de-escalate,” it seems the game gives you no alternative to violence. Standing in some random Texas citizen’s living room, the civilians draw weapons of their own and start firing at you. This leads to a brief encounter with local police outside where the following dialogue is shouted at you by cops with weapons drawn.
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“Drop your fucking weapons right now! Do exactly what I say or I’ll fucking shoot you. Understand? Step forward to me! I want to see empty hands above your head!”
Just as Mexican special forces colonel Alejandro Vargas (the person leading your operation) is about to get cuffed, a cop steps out to stop the arrest saying it’s “hard to tell you boys apart from the cartel.” You’re then ambushed and have to fight off a few actual cartel members who are dressed nothing like your characters. They have little-to-no tactical gear on, no military insignia, and are arguably using noticeably different weaponry. So, it seems the cops can’t tell them apart because…why now?
This is basically the entire level. Half of it is spent aiming weapons at and killing people in private homes, then you’re viciously threatened by law enforcement and racially profiled before finally getting into a few skirmishes with the game’s “bad guys.”
I recently had a conversation about this game with a friend who served in the military. In particular we talked about another deeply uncomfortable moment of violence in the game, this one in the second level, where you gun down a person fleeing for their life and cowering in a bathroom. As he illustrated, awful things like this happen in war. But the depiction of this material, be that gunning down maimed or innocent people in a warzone or aiming weapons at civilians to “de-escalate” a situation, is a choice the developers made. And in cases like “Kill or Capture” or “Borderline,” there’s no clear alternative to these actions. This is not a recreation of a historical event, and while levels like Borderline echo contemporary events and wider conversations about how police interact with citizens, it’s worth asking what is appropriate for a game like this? Why were these the decisions made when designing these levels? What notions about how police or soldiers should act are legitimized and reinforced when presented the way they are here?
Questions of realism are beside the point. There are a remarkable number of unrealistic things in Modern Warfare II. As Polygon reports, no searchable police documentation recommends aiming a weapon at someone to de-escalate a situation. So it’s not as if they applied realistic standards to this fictional scenario.
And remember, in the level’s third de-escalation encounter, the people you’re aiming at not only do have guns, but draw them on you, indicating not only that you were right to treat civilians as hostile threats, but that as law enforcement, you’re in constant danger. Meanwhile, in real life, it’s very often the cops who are a threat to civilians, as , police shoot unarmed people, disproportionately people of color, at an alarmingly high rate in the United States. However, those who built and designed this game chose to run with this as the things you play out in a video game, in some cases with no alternative but to directly threaten the lives of innocent people. And these are the protagonists you’re playing as. There are values and messages embedded in that, whether the game’s creators intended there to be or not.
It is both of questionable taste and based on no written standards of practice for law enforcement.
Biden takes aim at Big Pharma, Republicans in California
IRVINE, Calif., Oct 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden criticized Republicans and drug companies during a stop at a California community college on Friday as he campaigned for fellow Democrats in November’s midterm elections.
Biden’s trip includes stops in California on Friday and Oregon on Saturday as the president looks to position his party, the Democrats, as a champion of consumers and lower healthcare costs at a time that inflation ranks among voters’ top concerns. The midterm elections are on Nov. 8.
“We took on Big Pharma and we beat them, finally,” Biden said, referring to the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, caps the cost senior citizens are charged for prescriptions and lowers insulin prescriptions to $35 for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Biden promised to cap the insulin price at $35 for all Americans if Democrats keep the House and Senate. Most forecasts show Democrats with a slight advantage in the Senate and Republicans with a larger advantage in the House.
He claimed that Republicans will repeal the prescription drug price caps and take away Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices if they take control.
Biden’s motorcade was greeted in Irvine by more than 1,000 raucous protesters calling for Democracy in Iran, where anti-government demonstrations have raged for several weeks.
The president made reference to the protests in his remarks, saying that the United States stood with the Iranian people.
“He was moved by the protests that he saw from … Iranian Americans who were there,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said later. “It struck him and he wanted to comment about that at the top.”
The president was introduced by Democratic Representative Katie Porter, who has grilled bank and drug company executives on their profits in widely viewed Congressional hearings.
“Here’s the stone cold truth. Corporate greed worsens health outcomes, rips off taxpayers and threatens our capitalist economy,” Porter said, accusing the pharmaceutical industry of crushing competition and price transparency.
Biden signed an order Friday requiring the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to outline within 90 days how it will use new models of care and payment to cut drug costs.
Data on Thursday showed U.S. consumer prices jumped 8.2% in the 12 months through September, after peaking above 9% in the summer and growing at their fastest pace since 1981. Healthcare costs were partly to blame in the most recent month, along with food and rent.
HHS was given the power to promote new approaches to lowering costs and widening care through an Innovation Center, created by a 2010 healthcare reform law known as Obamacare and housed at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Some 65 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare programs, which have repeatedly come under fire for its cost to taxpayers.
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Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason; Additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Heather Timmons, David Gregorio & Shri Navaratnam
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NATO, partners aim to boost Kyiv’s air defence after Russian strikes
BRUSSELS, Oct 12 (Reuters) – More than 50 countries gather on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss bolstering Ukraine’s air defence, two days after Russian missiles rained on Kyiv and other cities across the country.
The gathering in Brussels is the first big NATO meeting since Russia annexed four occupied Ukrainian regions, began a partial mobilisation and issued veiled nuclear threats – moves the Western alliance has classified as a clear escalation of the war that started with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Two days after Russian air missile strikes killed 19 people in Ukraine and knocked out power supplies across the country, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged allies to send more air defence systems to Ukraine.
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Stoltenberg said the “horrific, indiscriminate attacks” showed why this was so important.
“We need different types of air defence – short-range, long-range, air defence systems to take ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, different systems for different tasks,” he told reporters on arrival for the meeting.
Allies also needed to scale up the supply of air defence systems to help Ukraine defend even more cities, he said.
On Tuesday, Ukraine received the first of four IRIS-T SLM air defence systems that Germany had promised to supply, a German defence ministry source said.
A senior U.S. defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Germany’s IRIS-T was another sign of the commitment to provide air defences to Ukraine, predating Russia’s latest missile fusillade against the country.
“Again this is a horrible set of circumstances, what’s occurred,” the official said. “But the fact that Russia has this capability and is willing to use that capability, including against civilian infrastructure and civilian targets, is not a surprise.”
Stoltenberg called Russia’s missile attacks a sign of weakness, showing President Vladimir Putin was running out of alternatives as his forces were losing on the battlefield.
Moscow, which calls its actions in Ukraine a “special military operation” to eliminate dangerous nationalists and protect Russian-speakers, has accused the West of escalating the conflict by supporting Kyiv.
Ukraine accuses Russia of an unprovoked imperialist land grab, three decades after the Moscow-led Soviet Union broke up.
NATO VIGILANT ON RUSSIAN NUCLEAR STANCE
NATO defence ministers will first meet with partners of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a body established on the initiative of the United States to keep up arms supplies to Kyiv. Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov will also take part.
The NATO ministers then kick off their talks with a dinner before Thursday’s first session on nuclear planning.
Stoltenberg said the alliance had not seen any changes in Russia’s nuclear posture.
“But we will remain vigilant, we will continue to monitor closely because the nuclear threats, the nuclear rhetoric, and the veiled threats from Russia are dangerous and reckless.”
NATO will hold its annual nuclear preparedness exercise, dubbed “Steadfast Noon”, next week, with training flights for fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons based in Europe and support planes. No live weapons are used.
NATO ministers are also due to discuss protecting critical infrastructure, a need that has become more urgent after attacks on Nord Stream pipelines running under the Baltic Sea, although it remains unclear who was behind the explosions.
On Wednesday, Polish operator PERN said it had detected a leak in one pipeline in the Druzhba system that carries oil from Russia to Europe. It said this was probably due to an accident.
NATO warned Moscow on Tuesday that it would meet attacks on allies’ critical infrastructure with a “united and determined response”.
Stoltenberg pledged to boost the protection of critical infrastructure, saying NATO had already doubled its presence in the Baltic and North Seas to more than 30 ships supported by aircraft and undersea activities.
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Apple’s latest products and features take aim at our greatest fears
Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the annual event on Wednesday with a three-minute video depicting how the Apple Watch has saved lives by calling for help. One man described how he was skating on a frozen river when the ice gave out. Another survived a plane crash in a remote area in the middle of winter. And a high school student escaped a bear encounter.
In another example, a 27-year old high school teacher who went to the emergency room after her Apple Watch detected an abnormally high heart rate. According to the teacher, “My doctor said, ‘It was your watch that saved your life.”
Apple has long presented its products as tools for creativity, productivity and a positive, if aspirational, lifestyle filled with friends and family, healthy habits and outdoor activities. Some of that was still on display at this year’s event, but there was a new messaging, too. The company positioned many of its products and features as safety nets in a shaky world.
Apple announced new car-crash detection technology on both the Apple Watch and iPhone which it says can determine the “precise moment of impact” using the device’s barometer, GPS and microphone. “We truly hope you never need it, but feel a little bit safer every time you get into a car,” said Ron Huang, Apple’s vice president of sensing and connectivity, during the announcement.
it also unveiled a groundbreaking Emergency SOS tool for iPhones that relies on satellites if, for example, you’re lost in the wilderness and cellular service isn’t working. And it introduced a new temperature monitoring tool on the Apple Watch that can be used to track illnesses, at a time when many may still be wrestling with pandemic health anxieties.
While arguably a continuation of Apple’s focus on health features, particularly with its smartwatches, the emphasis on these fearful use cases nonetheless raised some eyebrows among industry watchers. “It was a little surprising to see Apple reach for the alarmist approach and position their devices as potential life savers,” said Ramon Llamas, research director at market research firm IDC.
In recent years, Apple has promised customers that its products can help create a safer digital environment for them — one with stronger privacy protections and family-friendly content. Now it’s pitch appears to have expanded to keeping people safe in the real world.
“These emergency features are like the safety bags in your car: you aren’t going to need them all the time, but you’re grateful when you do,” Llamas said.
The shift in tone comes as Apple confronts a new economic landscape that could make it harder to convince customers to pay three- and four-figure amounts to upgrade their devices — especially when some of those products are not substantially different from the prior year.
The company introduced relatively minor updates to its devices across the board on Wednesday. The iPhone lineup, for example, offered updates to the camera systems, a new interactive lock screen and on the Pro models, much faster performance. Meanwhile, the new high-end Apple Watch Ultra is targeted toward extreme sports enthusiasts; while a market for rugged watches exists, not everyone needs tracking for deep ocean diving or triathlons.
“Refinement over revolution isn’t a bad thing but if purses are tightening with the economy then these announcements are a harder sell without anything groundbreaking,” said Eric Abbruzzese, a research director at market firm ABI Research.
The emphasis on health and safety could also help Apple bolster its subscription services business, Abbruzzese said, which has been one of its fastest-growing revenue lines in recent years. As he points out, the satellite connectivity is “only free for two years.” (Apple has not specified how much it costs after that.) Moreover, “advanced health tools seem like just another way to sell Fitness+ more strongly.”
College Football Playoff expansion: Board agrees to 12-team field with aim to implement as soon as possible
The College Football Playoff’s Board of Managers voted Friday to expand the playoff field to 12 teams with an aim to implement the larger format as soon as possible, sources tell CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd. The unanimous vote is an important first step in pushing the playoff beyond the current four-team format.
The expanded 12-team bracket will feature the six highest-ranked conference champions as automatic qualifiers along with the next six highest-ranked teams. The board has approved the new format to be utilized beginning with the 2026 season, though it hopes that it can be implemented earlier, perhaps as soon as the 2024 campaign.
While the 11-member board — including university presidents and chancellors representing each of the 10 FBS conferences, plus Notre Dame president John Jenkins — approved expansion as a concept, it is only the first step in ensuring the field moves beyond four teams. It is now up to the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, those who comprise the CFP Management Committee, to oversee implementation.
The committee is scheduled meet on Thursday in Irving, Texas. Among the main topics on the docket for the committee will be addressing the board’s request to implement the 12-team field earlier than 2026 along with when and where games will be played. The CFP’s 12-year contract with ESPN expires following the 2025 season.
“This is an historic and exciting day for college football,” said Mark Keenum, chairman of the CFP Board of Managers chairman and president of Mississippi State. “More teams, more participation and more excitement are good for our fans, alumni, and student-athletes. I’m grateful to my colleagues on the board for their thoughtful approach to this issue and for their resolve to get expansion across the goal line and for the extensive work of the Management Committee that made this decision possible.”
Among the measures approved by the CFP board Friday:
- 12-team bracket: Six highest-ranked conference champions (no minimum ranking requirement), plus next six highest-ranked teams
- Rankings system: CFP Selection Committee will continue to determine weekly rankings with criteria to be reevaluated
- Bracket placement: Four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded 1-4 with first-round byes; four highest remaining seeds will host lower seeds at sites to be determined
- Scheduling: First-round games will be played on either the second or third weekend in December, at least 12 days after conference championship games
- Bowl relationship: Quarterfinal and semifinal games will be played at rotating bowl sites subject to agreements being reached; national championship will continue being played at neutral sites; existing conference relationships with bowls will be considered for game placements
A CFP subcommittee comprised of FBS commissioners that originally developed this 12-team bracket received a favorable reception when it was first introduced in June 2021. Following that presentation and before expansion could be approved, realignment rocked college sports as Texas and Oklahoma announced plans to depart the Big 12 for the SEC.
Given SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and then-Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby were on that CFP subcommittee, the ranks were rattled with other conference commissioners putting a halt to expansion conversations while reevaluating their leagues’ places in the sport.
First came an alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 with the conferences agreeing to vote as a block on key issues. That alliance stood in the way of expansion on Jan. 10 with an 8-3 tally in support of moving to a larger field; a unanimous vote was required to pass expansion. In February 2022, given the board largely expected a rubber stamp in the prior vote, expansion was considered a shelved topic for the foreseeable future.
The Big Ten swiping USC and UCLA from the Pac-12 this past offseason, a continuation of this round of realignment, brought a clear end to that short-lived alliance. It also opened the door to revitalized talks given the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 will not be bringing in media rights revenue to the level of the Big Ten and SEC in the near future and can use CFP expansion to help guarantee their respective futures.
CFP executive director Bill Hancock previously stated that the playoff would not expand before the end of its current contract, which is set to expire in 2025. In releasing national championship game sites through the 2025 season just weeks ago — Atlanta will host following the 2024 season, South Florida the next year — the CFP seemingly confirmed a format change would not occur earlier.
If the CFP aims to expand prior to the end of its ESPN contract, it faces a hurdle of needing to find enough game sites (possibly on campus for early-round games) and enact appropriate logistics (hotel rooms, practice facilities, etc.) in a short period of time. While those remain large obstacles, several sources told Dodd all could be cleared with 28 months to go until a potentially expanded playoff in 2024.
“My response in general is, if people are willing [to do it], anything can happen,” said Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson, one of the four key members of that subcommittee alongside Sankey, Bowlsby and Swarbrick.
A 12-team playoff has been valued at $1.2 billion annually, industry sources told Dodd, up from the current $600 million the CFP is earning from ESPN. By not enacting expansion prior to the 2026 season, the CFP would be leaving significant money on the table. ESPN would hold rights to any additional CFP games through the final two years of its 12-year deal.
There remains widespread support for CFP media rights to go out to multiple bidders once the ESPN contract expires. The Big Ten recently signed a $1.2 billion annual deal with CBS, Fox and NBC to air its games.
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Canada, Germany aim to start hydrogen shipments in 2025
Hydrogen is seen as a component of Europe’s plan to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels, particularly in light of the war in Ukraine and recent reductions in the supply of Russian natural gas to Germany and other countries.
Scholz said Canada is Germany’s partner of choice as the country moves away from relying on Russia to supply energy.
“Our need might be even higher under the new circumstances,” Scholz said.
Natural gas prices have surged as Russia has reduced or cut off natural gas flows to a dozen European Union countries, fueling inflation and raising the risk that Europe could plunge into recession. Germans have been urged to cut gas use now so the country will have enough for the winter ahead.
The Canadian government earlier Tuesday signed separate agreements with Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz that will see the two German auto manufacturers secure access to Canadian raw materials for batteries in electric vehicles. The agreements include Canadian cobalt, graphite, nickel and lithium.
Stock futures are flat as S&P 500 takes aim at fifth winning week
Stock futures were little changed on Friday morning as the S&P 500 looked to grind out another positive week.
Futures for the S&P 500 were flat. Futures tied to the Nasdaq 100 the Dow Jones Industrial Average were also little changed.
The three major averages closed marginally higher on Thursday, putting the Dow and S&P 500 on track for a potential winning week. The S&P 500 is up just 0.08%, but that would still be its fifth straight positive week. The Dow is up 0.71% for the week, on track for its fourth positive week in five.
The Nasdaq Composite is down 0.63% for the week.
While this week has seen relatively muted moves on Wall Street, it comes on the heels of a solid rally since mid-June.
“The market is doing a little consolidating this week, a little flip-flopping. … I think this is still a healthy market,” said Frank Gretz, a technical analyst at Wellington Shields, citing solid advance-decline ratios in recent weeks.
There are no major economic reports due out on Friday, but investor sentiment may be buoyed by a better-than-expected earnings report and upbeat outlook from semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials on Thursday evening. Shares of the company were up about 2% in extended trading.