Yahoo Finance Live anchor Seana Smith looks at which stocks are moving markets in the final hours of trading.
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Applied Materials' (NASDAQ: AMAT) stock price soared to an all-time high of $167 back in January. At the time, investors were convinced the semiconductor equipment maker would be a great long-term play on the ongoing chip shortage.