Well, that's standard regulation.

Representatives of the state of Alaska, along with Prosper, Aligned, and Bident, asset management

ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Young Biotech doing the honors at the NASDAQ.

Stocks ending the day mixed as investors weighed weaker than expected labor data against progress on trade talks.

The Russell 2000 was a standout today, up more than 2%

this week so far, but the S&P did hit another all-time high in trading today. You can see

finishing up about half a percent. Energy and tech, we're leading sectors, but material's not

far behind. Healthcare, utilities, consumer staples, those lagged. Oil closing higher by more than 3%

as geopolitics outweighed a surprise building U.S. crude inventories. Iran saying that it's

suspended cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Plus reports today that mines were loaded

onto Iranian vessels last month. The dollar gaining some momentum midday before falling back

into negative territory. The greenback

hit the lowest level since 2022 in yesterday's trading, actually falling below the DXY, a key

technical level. That is the scorecard on Wall Street. The winners stay late. They do. That's why we're

here. Welcome to closing bell overtime. I'm John Ford

alongside Morgan Brennan. Coming up, Microsoft's going to cut 9,000 jobs across the company in

different units, different regions. We're going to look at what that could be saying about the

changing landscape in tech. Plus, we'll be joined by a firm CEO Max Levchin. What is he

seeing from the consumer right now? And we'll take a close

look at the parts of the budget bill that will directly impact high earners and investors.

Let's begin this hour with a check on both the stock and bond markets. Christina Parts Nevelis

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