That bell marks the end of regulation Curtis Wright Corporation ringing the closing bell to New York Stock Exchange

Nixoa doing the honors at the NASDAQ and it is a record close for the Dow but gains across the averages faded late in the session the NASDAQ

giving up a big early pop closing fractionally lower the S&P just about flat

that's a scorecard on Wall Street, but winners stay late.

Welcome to closing bell overtime. I'm John Fort. Morgan Brennan is off today.

Invidious numbers are behind us, but there's still plenty of earnings action on the way, including results this hour from

Dell, Marvell, Lulu Lemon, Ulta, Autodesk, and more.

Plus a big interview you don't want to miss Google Cloud CEO Thomas Currian joins us along with

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet with a look at how their partnership is helping

enterprise companies scale their AI offerings perhaps from ROI there.

As we await those earnings though, let's bring in Barbara Durand, she is CEO, B-D8 Capital Partners,

and Senior Markets Commentator Mike Santoli, it's going to be with us in just a moment. Barb, happy

Thursday. So, Invidia did well overall, but the stock was down, dropped to

levels from two weeks ago which given what

Invite has been doing isn't so bad.

S&P ended up about flat.

Put this in video result together with the Fed, the market action.

What's the message?

Well, I think we're in a seasonally very slow time,

which is August.

I mean, I think a lot of traders are on vacation.

You've always got volatility, chapiness, low buy-in. And I think there was such great expectations going

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