Closing Bell: 5/11/26
Closing Bell
CNBC
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm John Ford in for Scott Wapner, and this make or break hour starts with another run at records. |
| 0:06.6 | NASDAQ and S&P 500 both touching all-time highs as we head toward this close. |
| 0:11.0 | We're also seeing some major moves in the chip stocks again today with names like Micron, Qualcomm, Western Digital, all sharply higher. |
| 0:18.3 | We're going to have more on that stock surge coming right up. Elsewhere, oil |
| 0:22.0 | is higher on renewed tensions with Iran. And retail names are coming under pressure today with Target, |
| 0:28.6 | raw stores, and TJX all trading in the red. And that takes us to our talk of the tape, |
| 0:33.7 | how you should position your portfolio with stocks hitting fresh highs. |
| 0:37.6 | Let's ask our panel, CNBC contributor, High Tower, Stephanie Link, New Edge Welts, Cameron Dawson, |
| 0:43.6 | and Wells Fargo's Scott Wren. |
| 0:46.1 | Everybody welcome. |
| 0:47.4 | Stephanie, what a run here. |
| 0:49.3 | I mean, you were rightly thinking beyond Inidia on this AI stuff early. |
| 0:55.2 | But who saw, I mean, I know I gave you a hard time now. |
| 0:57.4 | You did. |
| 0:58.3 | But who saw Western Digital Seagate, like that derivative play, |
| 1:02.7 | started to emerge at beginning of the year with that crunch. |
| 1:05.2 | But boy, is it booming now. |
| 1:06.3 | It's booming across the board. |
| 1:08.0 | And I say you stick with them all, the semiconductor trade. |
| 1:10.7 | But I also think you want to stick with the industrials as well that are building out the |
| 1:14.8 | infrastructure. They're just as big beneficiaries, and they're not up as much as the |
| 1:20.5 | semiconductor space is. But, I mean, the moves have been enormous. I don't think you want to |
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