We are up again. That's the scorecard on Wall Street, but winners stay late. Welcome to

the closing down overtime. I am John Fort with Morgan Brennan.

Coming up on today's show, we're going to talk to the CEO of Home Builder Maritage Homes.

It's up 70% this year,

with rates in sharp focus ahead of tomorrow's Fed decision.

And we are awaiting breaking news this hour

from the White House,

as President

Boudemir Zelenski, we will take you there live when it starts.

We begin with the market, though, and another day in the green

with fresh 52 week highs for all the major averages following this morning's inflation report

which came in, we'll say warmer than expected on the headline print but in line

on the core number meantime oil pulling back sharply pushing W.T. I below 70

bucks per barrel. Let's bring in Mike Santoli at the New York Stock Exchange.

Mike, your thoughts on this as investors sit on their hands and await a Fed decision tomorrow.

Yeah, Morgan, another data point that came in so close to expectations and so consistent

with the assumed trend of, you know, we're getting disinflation, running

through the economy. The economy itself is weathering higher rates, okay for now.

It looks like fourth quarter and first quarter corporate earnings are more or less

underwritten by these conditions at least roughly speaking and we have this sort of

seasonal lack of of sellers in this upside bias. So all that stuff feeding together,

you're getting this upward drift in the indexes.

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