Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm Scott Wobner live from Post Nine here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This make-to-break hour begins with a still unsettled market as rates, inflation, and of course

the escalating situation in the Middle East all tug on investor sentiment.

Your scorecard with 60 minutes to go in regulation, it's mixed, it's volatile.

Yet again for stocks following that hotter than expected PPI report, yields which were mostly lower ahead of it.

Well, they moved mixed.

There's your picture, the two years above 5%, the 10 years at 459.

Equities, little volatile as well they've moved lower to if there's a bit of a

bright spot today it's in tech as several of the mega cap names have stayed in

positive territory there's a picture there metaidia, Amazon all up better than 1%.

Energy's the weakest sector today.

Crude continues its sharp pullback.

Keeping an eye there over the final stretch as well, 83 bucks. a decline of two and a half percent all

of it takes us to our talk with the tape whether just good enough earnings

which begin in just a couple of days will be good enough to send stocks into a year-ending run-up.

Let's ask Dan Greenhouse.

Solis Alternative Asset Management's Chief Strategist, he is with me once again at

post nine.

So rates have largely been cooperating in the past few days will

earnings yeah I mean I think the answer is yes I think this idea that earnings

just need to be satisfactory or not is sort of secondary to the yield story which you just brought up and what I mean by that is pretty clearly you've seen a relationship between the two since the end of July. You had the Bank of

rates and stocks. You had the Bank of Japan and then you had the supply

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