Well, that bell marks the end of regulation.

Affleck, ringing the closing bell to New York Stock Exchange,

pledge 1% doing the honors at the NASDAQ, and it's proving to be a December to remember already

with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ closing at fresh highs again.

That is the scorecard on Wall Street, but winners stay late.

But from the closing bell overtime. I'm John Ford with Morgan Brennan.

Well, the communication services sector, the big winner today, hitting the highest level since

1999. Thanks to big gains by AT&T and META, which I believe hit a record high today.

Meantime, the Dow keeps underperforming the broader market. It's falling for the third time

in four sessions.

Investors now awaiting several big tech earnings highlighted by Salesforce. We will also get results from

Box, Marvell Technology, ACTA, and Pure Storage. And Pure Storage's CEO will break down those

numbers for us in an exclusive interview. Before the call, well, Cloud Week

rolls along tomorrow as well and over time and we'll speak exclusively with pure, well,

we're going to speak with him today as a matter of fact, but tomorrow we got synopsis coming

up as well. But right now, let's get straight to our market panel. Paul Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group

and Deepak Bury of Deutsche Bank. Guys, welcome. Paul, not only is Salesforce a component in the

underperforming Dow. It's the largest component in the IGV software ETF, I think just under 10%

of its assets. How influential then might these results be that we're

about to get over how the major indices trade tomorrow? I mean, so I think as far as the software,

it's going to drive the sentiment towards that space. The sector has been on an incredible run

basically since May when Salesforce had its low for the year.

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