Closing Bell: 4/24/26
Closing Bell
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4.4 • 139 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And hello, everybody. Welcome to closing bell. I'm in today for Scott Wapner. I'm Contessa Brewer. |
| 0:04.8 | It's a make or break hour and it's starting with new records on Wall Street. The S&P 500 heads for its longest weekly win streak since 2024. |
| 0:13.7 | Here's your scorecard with 60 minutes left in the trading session. As you can see, the Dow industrials are in the red off by two-tenths of a percent, |
| 0:21.1 | but the S&P is on fire, up three-quarters of a percent. The NASDAQ, up a percent and a half, |
| 0:25.9 | and you've got the Russell 2000, up half a percent as well. Oil is pulling back. The White House |
| 0:31.2 | says Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff will head to Pakistan this weekend and engage in direct |
| 0:36.6 | talks with their Iranian counterparts. |
| 0:38.3 | Right now, WTI is at 9437 and Brent's at 10528. |
| 0:43.3 | Among the top movers, you've got Intel. |
| 0:46.3 | That stock soaring to a new all-time high on blowout earnings. |
| 0:51.3 | Want to surprise everybody? |
| 0:52.3 | Have blowout earnings on Intel. |
| 0:54.4 | Look at those shares up more than 21%. |
| 0:57.0 | And Invidia up four and a third, |
| 0:59.0 | reclaiming its $5 trillion market cap, |
| 1:02.2 | both Charter and Comcast are in the red following earnings. |
| 1:05.2 | We have more on these moves coming up. |
| 1:08.0 | But first, the big news out of Washington today |
| 1:10.1 | as the Justice Department drops |
| 1:12.0 | its criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Steve Leesman has been working on this story |
| 1:17.3 | all day, joins us now with the latest. Steve, what are you learning? Big moves today. The U.S. |
| 1:21.9 | Attorney for the District of Columbia, Contessa, announcing she has dropped her criminal probe into Fed Chair |
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