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Closing Bell

Closing Bell: 4/6/26

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.4139 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

From the open to the close, “Closing Bell” and “Closing Bell: Overtime” have you covered. From what’s driving market moves to how investors are reacting, Scott Wapner, Melissa Lee and Michael Santoli guide listeners through each trading session and bring to you some of the biggest names in business.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to closing bell. I'm Scott Walker live from Post 9 here at the New York Stock Exchange.

0:04.1

This maker breakout begins with, of course, the markets. They're hanging in there today. Let's show you the scorecard with 60 to go in regulation. We are green across the board. It really does feel like a wait and see ahead of the president's Tuesday night deadline for Iran to open the straight-up more moves. We'll watch the market, of course.

0:20.3

It's every tick.

0:21.5

Oil is stable.

0:22.6

Yields are as well.

0:23.5

That's helping the overall vibe. for Iran to open the straight-up Hormuz. We'll watch the market, of course. It's every tick.

0:21.5

Oil is stable.

0:22.6

Yields are as well.

0:23.5

That's helping the overall vibe too in the markets today.

0:27.0

Sectors mostly mixed.

0:29.3

We've got to show you Tesla.

0:30.4

It is one of the stocks to watch today.

0:32.5

J.P. Morgan re-ups its bearish call on that name today.

0:35.9

We'll have a report coming up on where they see, where they see the stock sliding from here. Here's a hint. Nowhere close to where it's currently trading. So we'll get you that in just a moment. We do want to begin in Washington, though, with the very latest on the war and the president's just wrapped up news conference this afternoon. Megan Casella has that for us. Hi there.

0:57.6

Hey, Scott, we heard from the president for almost an hour and a half this afternoon,

1:01.6

taking questions from reporters on the latest in Iran. And what we heard was the president mostly vacillating between vowing to escalate the war, obliterate some power plants and bridges,

1:06.4

some civilian infrastructure in Iran, while also leaving the door open to diplomacy, saying he would

1:12.5

rather find some sort of a deal. Take a listen to some of these comments.

1:17.0

We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated

1:25.9

by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be

1:32.4

out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again. I mean complete demolition

1:39.1

by 12 o'clock, and it'll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to. We don't want that to happen. So you can hear the two sides. They're saying there is a plan for total decimation, but that we don't want that to happen. Now, he was asked by some reporters about this sort of mixed rhetoric. On one hand, the president says it's partly because he can't reveal his plans to the media, but it's also, he says,

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