That bell marks the under regulation.

Norax ringing the closing bell with the New York Stock Exchange.

Fiber Children's Foundation doing the honors at the NASDAQ, and stocks are lower across the board.

The Dow down about 250 points.

S&P 500 off about a 30 percent.

The NASDAQ down half a percent like the Dow, similar loss for the Russell.

Energy, the best performing sector, oil and that gas, both moving higher. The worst performing

group is materials, with the air really coming out of the metals trade. Gold, silver, copper,

all lower. And look at that decline for platinum, down almost 14%. Newmont and Abramarl are the

two worst stocks in the S&P 500 today. That is the scorecard on Wall Street, but winners stay late.

Welcome to closing about overtime.

I'm John Ford.

Morgan Brennan is off today.

And just two days left in the year, this year's top down performer is not an AI-driven

tech stock.

It's a classic old economy name, Caterpillar.

But AI and data center demand are a big reason.

We will talk to one economist who says this trend could continue to drive growth.

And it's been a rough few months for the cybersecurity stocks. Nearly every component of the CIBR ETF is lower this quarter. Could AI be a boost for these stocks next year?

And finally, we're caught up on data from the last government

shutdown, but another one could be coming. We'll tell you what Congress has to accomplish in the

first month of the year to avoid that. But let's start with more on this down day for the markets.

...