That bell marks the end of regulation. Consolidated Edison ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange, Charlton ARIA Acquisition Corporation doing the honors at the NASDAQ.

Stocks closing out their best session since the day after the election.

The Bulls breathing a sigh of relief as inflation heads in the right direction and banks kickoff earnings season on a high note.

That's the scorecard on Wall Street, but winners stay late.

Welcome to closing down overtime.

I'm John Ford with Morgan Brennan.

Well, coming up this hour, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, gives us her first take on

today's inflation print and what it means for the Fed's timetable.

Plus, Evercore ISIs Krishna Guha on the market reaction and where he thinks

stocks head from here. And we'll talk about the big moves for bank stocks. And look ahead to reports

coming tomorrow from Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. Let's get straight to the market.

And this rally with G-square Private Wealth, CIO and CNBC contributor, Victoria Green,

and B of A Securities Director of Equity Strategy,

O'Sung Kwan. Guys, good afternoon. Victoria, you're generally positive on the markets, especially,

I guess, after this cooler CPI print, we can look at fundamentals, you say, but on earnings,

you say afternoons have been rally killers. Here we sit in overtime in the afternoon.

What do you mean? I was so happy to see the rally hold. The January has been ugly in the

afternoons, right? We've had so many mornings start off on a bright note and then I don't know.

Would Marcus take a break at lunch and don't come back or something? But we've seen these rallies

tail off time and time again this year. So for me today, it was so nice. We had that midday dip

and I was like, oh my goodness, here we go again. You know, S&P almost downed like 1% gains.

And so to see it rally out, I think that's a huge sign of confidence in this rally is still intact. And we finally had earnings to focus on, not macro, not Fed speak, not politics.

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