Well, there you have it record closed for the S&P 500, finishing above 4800 for the first time that we're seeing the broader market hit an all-time high since January of 2022.

We've got new records for the Dow and the NASDAQ 100 as well.

That is the square car on Wall Street.

The action though is just getting started.

Welcome to Closing Bell overtime.

I'm Morgan Brennan with John Ford.

Good to have you back.

Yeah, Tech keeps outperforming the broader market, led in part by

Apple today and so could M&A be a driving force behind the next leg of this rally if it

has one? Well, head of health care consumer

and retail investment banking is going to give us his merger outlook but first

let's bring in Bob Bazani for more on this historic closed Bob along with the major

indices really strong day for the socks the Philadelphia

semiconductor index up a full 4%. And who would have thought that Tech would be the leader in January of 2024?

Everyone thought, well, it couldn't, two years in a row, you can't have Invidi up 200% again.

And yet that is exactly what's happening.

I just want to show you how we got here

remember as you heard earlier January 3rd 2022 last time we had an historic high it took

almost 750 days but we did it and here's how we got there. Energy was a big market leader, believe it or not,

up 40 percent, but that's only 4 percent of the S&P 500. Technology was the key to this rally,

even in the last two years with a bad move down in

2022 tech up 15%

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