We've got your scorecard on Wall Street there another rally but winter stay late

welcome to closing bell overtime I am John Ford Morgan Brennan is off today and

coming up this hour the story shaking the AI world and reverberating all around the tech sphere.

We're gonna talk about Sam Altman's ouster

from open AI for now.

Microsoft's move to hire him

to lead a new AI research team. If's going to happen. We're going to

discuss what all of these changes mean for investors in Microsoft which did

hit record levels today and NVIDIA which also hit a record ahead of tomorrow's earnings.

Speaking of earnings, more big names are coming this week including Best Buy, Lowe's, and

dear and today we get one-time pandemic darling Zoom.

I'm going to bring you those numbers as soon as they cross.

Let's begin with the market.

Stocks starting the holiday shortened week with more green on the screen, building

momentum throughout the session coming off

three straight weeks of gains the NASDAQ leading the pack after best week since

June oil getting a boost after four weeks in a row of losses.

Let's bring in Mike Santoli, CNBC Senior Markets Commentate.

Mike?

Yeah, John, I mean the market keeps testing just how deep that reservoir of pessimism was that

set up this rally. You know we were worried about so many things whether the

economy could handle yields rising to these levels oil seemed like it had reason to go higher. All those

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