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All right guys, thanks so much. Welcome to Closing Bell of Scott Wapner live from Santa Clara, a site of Super Bowl 60.

And speaking of big round numbers, the Dow hitting 50,000 for the very first time ever.

We're going to track it over this final stretch.

Can we close above there as well? Well, we shall see, which means you can't go anywhere. We're also going to speak live to the CEO of Levi's, the company's brand taking center stage this weekend. We look very much forward to that. And the mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, he'll join me, his city, in the spotlight over the next few days. Lots to discuss.

We, of course, though, we begin with the markets. As stocks are surging back today, how about the

equal weight S&P 500? Also hitting a new record high today, and that's a very, very big part of

this market story. So is Amazon. It's lower. It's AI spending plans. Well, they blew past

expectations. And that's where we begin today. History on Wall Street, the Dow, hitting 50,000

for the very first time ever. Let's bring in our panel, the Wharton School, Professor of Finance, Wisdom Tree

chief economist Jeremy Siegel,

CNBC contributors, Hightower, Stephanie Link, and Requisite Capitals, Bryn Talkington.

So good to have everybody with us.

Professor, I'm going to you first on this.

50K for the first time ever. We set this up about three weeks ago, and who would have dreamed that this is 50K?

I mean, I remember 10K in 1999, and, you know, it was 25K in 2008.

So, you know, in 2018, so in eight years, we've actually doubled the Dow.

And as you know, the Dow is underweight technology.

So it's more of the value stocks, more of the older stocks.

It does have a couple, certainly tech stocks in it.

But for that to hit a new high like this, I mean, it shows the fundamental, despite what we see

this rotation, there's a lot of fundamental strength in this economy. Yes, Steph, it shows the

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