Kelly, thanks so much. Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm Scott Wopner live from

Post Nine right here at the New York Stock Exchange. This make-or-break hour

begins with the major averages trying for five straight days of gains. That's

clearly shaping up to be a struggle to say the least rising rates no doubt a headwind today on that hotter than expected

CPI report and a week Treasury auction right around midday. There's your picture. Dow S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, all week.

That's your scorecard with 60 minutes to go in regulation as there is plenty of red on the

board today. Materials, industrial, and staples, all dragging stocks lower today.

It's pretty weak.

Overall, you look under the hood, you see a lot of weakness.

There's your picture from the three sectors that I mentioned.

Financials, they're lower too as they get ready to kick off earning season in the morning,

City, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo, all of that before the bell.

Check, well it was one of the only decent spots today.

Even it now has rolled over. We show you the

tech XLK ETF. It does take us to our talk of the tape with the NASDAQ

performing better lately and still on track for a relatively strong week,

can tech alone carry the market higher

into the end of the year,

just as it did for the first six months of 2023.

Let's ask someone who counts several tech names

as top holdings.

Amy Kong is with Corrient.

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