Welcome to closing bell. I'm Scott Wapner, live from Post 9, here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This maker break hour begins with this surge in stocks on hopes the war with Iran is closer to an end.

We'll follow this action right into the close today. We'll show you the scorecard here with 60 to go in regulation.

We are green and well so across the board. The majors were already higher. They did get a major boost in the noon hour on that report that Iran's president said they were open to ending the war. Unconfirmed, but nonetheless, it moved the market. We'll get the latest from Washington in just a moment, but there is your intraday picture of the majors. It shows the story pretty well. Oil moved a little bit lower, not much,

but it was enough to make people feel better about what's been happening there, too.

Yields have been down, and all of that has contributed to the better feeling in the markets today

as this final stretch begins. Tech, a big story as well. Invidia taking back a key level.

There it is above $170 a share.

It's a 5% gain.

Many of the other mega caps are rising in concert, too.

We'll have more on that coming up.

First, though, we begin in Washington and CNBC's Aiman Jabbers,

who has the very latest on this war.

Amon?

Yeah, Scott, as you say, markets have been moving on reports of a phone call held earlier

today between Iran's president and the president of the European Council.

Iran's state-affiliated press TV is reporting that Iran's president said that the country

seeks no war, but is prepared to end it with

guarantees against further attacks. So that does convey a sense that Iran is continuing to

offer up some conditions that could be built into any deal to end the war. But that's not

necessarily new, and it's just one part of the set of demands that Iran has been making publicly already.

Now, President Trump has said that negotiations are ongoing, and if Iran doesn't cut a deal

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