Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm Scott Wopner live from Post 9 right here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This make a break hour begins with two big tech stocks on the move today.

Apple on the doorstep of history again hitting three trillion dollars in market, kept trying trying to anyway and in video one of this year's

biggest winners under some pressure today on reports of possible new export

restrictions to China. We are following both big stories and asking just how much of this rally is now

hanging on those two closely followed and widely held names. We'll ask big technologies,

Alex Cantruitz. In just a moment in the meantime your score card with

60 minutes to go in regulation stocks mostly lower for most of the day

health care and some defense names dragging the major averages lower there's the

S&B a fractional loser the Dow's a modest loser by about one third of

one percent but the Nasdaq take a look at that's trying to buck the

trend we'll see if it can over this final stretch takes us to our talk of the tape the rally the second half

and weather tech can continue to carry stocks higher Alex Kantowitz founder of

big technology and a CNVCor joins us right here right now.

So Apple on the doorstep again is the second time going to be the charm for the $3 trillion stock.

Feels like it should, right?

Because the last time Apple reached three trillion dollars, there were things on the horizon that

looked really menacing.

For instance, supply chain issues.

We were on the doorstep of Amacon or actually in the thick of

Amacon. Inflation was about to get started, rate raises were coming. We've been

through all of that now, right? So we know what's in store for the market and

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