Kelly, thanks so much. Welcome to Closing Bell on this Friday. I'm Scott

Wopner live from Post Nine right here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This make-a-break hour begins with the look ahead to the biggest and most

important week of earning season yet.

Microsoft and Meta-Amazon Alphabet all reporting the stocks on a big run this year.

The bar is high.

Here is your scorecard with 60 minutes to go with regulation. Stocks are pacing for their worst

weekend more than a month. Questions about the economy remain front and center.

Brings us to our talk to the tape. Is the rally on the ropes or not and will the biggest names in the market save it or sink it?

Let's ask Lauren Goodwin of New York Life Investment Management here with me at post 9.

Welcome back. It has been a resilient market, right right I mean any dip of late has has been bought

are we running out of gas I mean how do you see it heading into what's a huge week

next week? It is a huge week next week.

It is so uncomfortable for investors to sit and stew in this no man's land of uncertainty, mixed data, and no good answers.

But there are two things actually that I'm looking at next week

in terms of where the market might be going next,

and specifically the equity market.

One of them is actually

the employment data on Friday, employment cost index, which I think is really important for this

tug of war we're seeing about the Fed. And then of course you mentioned tech earnings specifically revenues

because the market breadth in this upturn has been so focused on these big tech

names I think it gives us a huge indication of whether we'll see up or down in the week after.

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