Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm Scott Wopner on this Friday live from Post 9 here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This make or break hour begins with the final stretch of a volatile week.

Earnings underway about to get busier, interest rates falling, but raising new questions about the state of the U.S.

economy, the war in the Middle East impacting gold and oil markets.

In other words, your money being pulled in multiple directions as we track every move today as always.

Here's your scorecard with 60 minutes to go with regulation stocks.

We're doing pretty well.

Well, until late in the morning when a consumer confidence number came in well below estimates

and a read on inflation expectations.

Well that was higher than anticipated.

And that all but nullified the pop that some of the banks gave the market on a series of

better than expected earnings reports.

J.P. Morgan, well, cities got negative too, but J. PM and Wells Fargo are still nicely positive.

Bright spots on an otherwise topsy-turvy day.

Boeing is one of the Dow's worst performers today.

More issues with the 737 max emerging that stock down by more than 3%.

And as for tech, it is the biggest loser, every mega cap name losing some altitude today.

Meta, one of the worst performers along with NVIDIA takes us to our talk of the tape.

Whether stocks can have a late year surge or not.

Let's ask two market watchers on two sides of that argument.

BMOs Brian Belzky, he says investors shouldn't fear rising rates.

And Cantor's Eric Johnston who argues stocks are likely going a lot lower.

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