Well, that's the end of regulation.

Helios Technologies ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Callumost Investments doing the honors at the NASDAQ.

Stocks moving higher once again today.

It was a weak ADP jobs report.

It may be increasing hopes.

The Fed will cut rates next week.

The Dow higher by more than 400 points.

The S&P 500 NASDAQ both up with small gains, fractional gains.

The Russell 2000 was leading the way.

That was up more than 1.5% today.

United Health, American Express, McDonald's, those are the leading Dow stocks.

Only a handful of Dow names falling today.

Among them, some of the tech names, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon.

Energy, the best performing sector today, oil up nearly 1%. APA and EQT, both at more than 4% as well.

And that's a scorecard on Wall Street, but winter stay late. Welcome to closing about overtime.

I'm John Ford, alongside Morgan Brennan, and it's going to be another busy hour of earnings.

The big name to highlight for you

is Salesforce. Due out any moment, we're also expecting to hear from Snowflake and Five Below. And UiPath also reporting, we're going to talk to that company's CEO once those results come in. But first, the new CEO of C3AIs going to join us to discuss the results from his first quarter running the company. that stock having a brutal year, the price cut by more than half.

Let's begin, though, with today's market gains.

Christina Parts and Avelas has a look at today's movers. Christina. Thanks, Morgan. You touch upon it, but bad news is good news on Wall Street today. A weaker than expected ADP report actually boosted hopes for a Fed rate cut. Small caps led the charge of the rest of 2000.

Now paced all major indices by at least a full percentage point.

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