That bell marks the end of regulation.

Recording artist Darlene Love, bringing the pose and bell with the New York Stock Exchange

to celebrate the exchanges holiday tree lighting and Chocolate City relay and Pacers running doing the honors at the NASDAQ.

And let's see, we've got a bit of green on the S&P 500, but not too much.

You can see it ending there a bit lower.

That's the score caught on Wall Street.

Winners stay late.

Welcome to closing about overtime.

I'm John Fort.

Morgan Brennan is on assignment, and investors now awaiting some big retail and tech earnings

highlighted by results from Alta,ulu Lemon, Gila Packard

Enterprise, DocuSign, and Rubrik.

And Rubrik CEO is going to join us on a first on CNBC interview to discuss those results

before he speaks with analysts on the call.

Plus, our Cloud Week series features an exclusive interview with Service Now CEO Bill McDermott on how AI and

software stocks could fare under an incoming Trump administration. As we await all those earnings,

let's bring in BD8 Capital Partner CEO, Robert Duran, and Columos Investments Co-CIO, Michael Grant.

Guys, welcome. Barb, the Russell, under particular pressure it looks like today, down more than 1%. Some risk assets not faring too well.

Anything to make of that ahead of this jobs report? Well, I don't know if it's so much connected to the jobs report.

Because the jobs report, I think either way it goes could be positive for the market. If it's strong, that's good. It reflects

the good economy. If it's weak, you know, it means the Fed can ease. I think the small cap trade in my

view has been a trade. And a lot of people have rotated into, we're constantly looking for the laggards.

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