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20:02 EDT On The Fly: Top five weekend stock stories - Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Google (GOOG) has begun an internal investigation into whether its advertising products and services were used as part of a Russia-linked influence campaign, according to The New York Times. The company has said it would cooperate with congressional inquiries into the election, and was called to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on November 1, the publication noted. 2. An average of 372,000 people watched the Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears on Amazon's (AMZN) sites and apps worldwide last Thursday, according to Recode. Last year, only 243,000 watched Twitter's (TWTR) first livestream of a Thursday night NFL game, the publication noted. 3. Cheap imported solar cells have fueled an alternative-energy boom in the U.S., but now President Donald Trump is considering tariffs that could slow the flow of foreign cells, Avi Salzman and Bill Alpert wrote in this week's edition of Barron's. If the White House pushes ahead with an aggressive tariff hike, the major beneficiary would be First Solar (FSLR), the U.S. industry leader, whose products would become cheaper than those sold by foreign competitors, while residential solar firms such as Sunrun (RUN) would be hurt, as they would no longer have access to cheap cells, they added. 4. New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. (TWX) horror movie "It" remains a phenomenon in its fourth weekend, ending Sunday with $17.3M and a domestic haul of $291M. Overseas, the horror blockbuster took in $35.6M from 64 markets for $262M abroad and $533.2M globally. 5. Liberty Global LiLAC (LILAK), General Dynamics (GD), Applied Materials (AMAT), TSMC (TSM), Expedia (EXPE), Thermo Fisher (TMO) saw positive mentions in Barron's.

17:27 EDT Box Office Battle: 'It' beats 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle' - New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. (TWX) horror movie "It" remains a phenomenon in its fourth weekend, ending Sunday with $17.3M and a domestic haul of $291M. Overseas, the horror blockbuster took in $35.6M from 64 markets for $262M abroad and $533.2M globally. BOX OFFICE RUNNERS-UP: Universal Pictures' (CMCSA) new film "American Made" followed at number two, ending the weekend slightly above $17M. Behind it was "Kingsman: The Golden Circle", which ended Sunday with an estimated $17M. The movie was distributed by 20th Century Fox (FOXA). Warner Bros.' animated family offering "The Lego Ninjago Movie" followed at number four, with $12M. Rounding out the top five, "Flatliners," which was released by Sony (SNE), faltered with an estimated $6.7M bow. The movie has a 0 rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes, but has earned a B- CinemaScore from audiences. Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include Lionsgate (LGF.A), Viacom (VIAB; VIA), and Walt Disney (DIS).

16:16 EDT root9B announces foreclosure auction results, CEO resignation - root9B Holdings has announced that as previously disclosed the company received a foreclosure notice from Centriole Reinsurance, as agent for the company's secured creditors, that, to satisfy the company's outstanding secured indebtedness, it intended to sell substantially all of the assets of the company at an auction, pursuant to the security agreement, dated September 9, 2016, by and among the company and the secured creditors. On September 28, 2017, the agent held a public auction for all of the collateral, at which no qualified bidders other than the secured creditors appeared. The company's secured creditors entered a bid of $12,536,482, representing the total outstanding principal and unpaid interest owed to the secured creditors, and acquired all of the collateral at the auction, thereby discharging the company's secured indebtedness and terminating the security agreement. As a result, the company no longer has any operating assets and has no ability to generate revenue. In connection with the auction described above, on September 28, 2017, Eric Hipkins resigned his positions as a director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective immediately.