The bell is bringing an end to the trading day at the NYSC, Gold Royalty Corp, ringing the bell, and at the NASAC.

It's Z-square doing the honors.

Welcome to closing bell over time.

We're live from Studio B at the NASAC market site.

I'm Melissa Lee, along with Mike Santoli.

We have got a huge hour coming up for the biggest companies in the world reporting results.

Our team will bring you the

numbers from Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta as soon as they cross, and we've got a great

lineup of guests to break down the results. Those numbers coming after a mostly down day for the

markets. The Fed leaving rates unchanged, but with several dissenters, the Dow losing nearly

300 points, the S&P 500 finishing just below the flat line,

and there was a small gain for the NASDAQ.

Chipp names, once again, big winners.

NXP and Seagate rising following their results last night.

Another big game for Intel up more than 100% in April.

Oil, though, is still a big overhang, up%, as President Trump says, the blockade will continue

until Iran agrees to a nuclear deal, of course.

There was also Fed Chair Jay Powell's last press conference as Fed Chair, saying zero chance

of a rate cut for the rest of the year, so that gets price out of the market.

It felt like there was every chance throughout the day to reduce exposure and to see sort of a pullback in the year. So that gets price out of the market. It felt like there was every chance throughout the

day to reduce exposure and to see sort of a pullback in the markets as opposed to a flat line.

And you didn't really get it, right? I mean, oil, obviously making new highs, multi-week highs,

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