Closing Bell: Playing Today’s Rally 3/23/26
Closing Bell
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, guys, thanks so much. Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm Scott Wapner, live from Post 9. |
| 0:04.1 | Right here at the New York Stock Exchange, this maker breakout begins with today's market rebound. |
| 0:09.0 | Let's take a look at the score guard now. With 60 to go in regulation, the major averages are all higher today following the president saying talks have happened with Iran. |
| 0:18.0 | A few other details, good enough though, to send stocks higher into a relief rally. Let's |
| 0:23.3 | call it that for now. Consumer discretionary names, they're showing that. They're all higher. |
| 0:28.4 | Airlines and cruises are as well, and they needed a lot of relief, and that's why that |
| 0:33.1 | bounced back looks the way it does today. How about the chips? Also showing some strength, |
| 0:38.0 | especially the chip equipment names like Lamb Research and Applied Materials and KLA 10 Corps. |
| 0:44.1 | Given today's news, we will begin in Washington for the very latest with our own Aman Javras. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi there, Amin. |
| 0:49.3 | Hey there, Scott. President Trump told reporters today that his administration is in contact with Iranians, |
| 0:54.5 | who he says are very representative of the country in talks that went late into Sunday evening. |
| 0:59.5 | And as a result, he said that's why he's suspending his own deadline of today for the bombing |
| 1:04.3 | of Iranian power plants offering a five-day extension on that deadline. |
| 1:09.7 | And he said he's considering a post-war power sharing arrangement |
| 1:13.1 | with a new Iranian government for sea traffic through the state of Hormuz. Here's what he said. |
| 1:20.4 | We are now having really good discussions. They started last night a little bit, the night before that. |
| 1:30.4 | And I think they're, you know, I think they're very good. |
| 1:34.4 | They want to, they want peace. |
| 1:37.2 | They've agreed. |
| 1:37.8 | They will not have a nuclear weapon, you know, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:41.0 | But we'll see. |
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