Well, Stocks struggling for direction as we begin at the third quarter, but the NASDAQ climbing to a new record close.

All the major averages finishing higher driven by a big pop for Tesla.

That's a scorecard on Wall Street, but the action is just

getting started. Welcome to Closing Bell overtime. I'm Morgan Brennan with John Fort.

And we have got a big interview coming your way.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman joins us in his first interview since taking the job at the beginning of June.

That's a role once held by current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and part of the business crucial

to Amazon's push above $2 trillion in market cap.

Plus, we will talk to the CEO of booking holdings as we kick off what could be a record

setting week for travel. But first, let's begin with the market action as the

second half of the year gets underway. Let's bring in our market panel Paul

Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group and Bob Dahl of Crossmark Global

Investments. Great to have you both here and as I of Crossmark global investments.

Great to have you both here.

And as I mentioned, the S&P, the NASDAQ,

and the Dow all finished higher,

although the Russell 2000 finished down

about 8 tenths of 1% transport's also lower here too.

Paul, to kick this off with you, I mean a lot of focus right now short term on

seasonality and how strong the first half of July tends to be on an annual basis.

The AI trade continues, we're awaiting earnings, but we also know in an election year,

the stock market tends to be strong in the second half especially of your

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