Welcome to a closing bell, I'm Mike Santoli in for Scott Wopner here at Post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange.

This make or break hour begins with stocks tentatively seeking firmer footing after a jarring week.

The major index is struggling to stay in the green most of the day

as the breakout in bond yields this week. Stokes economic concerns. Treasury yields

are calmer though on the day and oil prices are quiet.

Coming up, Citi out with a new bullish call on Meta.

We'll talk to the analyst about why he's optimistic about that name.

This brings us to our talk of the tape.

Our stocks close to completing a standard seasonal pullback

or is there more payback to come as higher rates test the economy's

resilience.

Here to discuss all that is Greg Branch, Veritas Financial Group Managing Partner.

Greg, it's great to have you here.

Good to be here, Mike.

You know, you have been in the hire for longer on rates camp for a while also feeling like the

stock market wouldn't necessarily be able to handle it all that easily what is

this week told you about the resilience of the market in the face of higher

rates where rates are going and what it all means.

Right, so one of the issues I've had this year with the barest posture Mike and I didn't maintain that because of an obstinate, I probably am, but the reason that I've maintained it is that I've been higher than the higher and longer than the longer and

So the market is just starting to catch up with my high, right?

A year ago when I declared my terminal rate at 6%,

to put it diplomatically, that was highly scrutinized.

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