Welcome to Closing Bell, I'm Scott Wobner live from Post 9 here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This make-or-break hour begins with Bulls and Bears in a battle.

Your money caught it squarely in the middle.

Stocks trying to eke out a positive week. It's been anything but easy though despite coming off the best day of the month.

There's your scorecard with 60 minutes to go in regulation. That's the kind of day really. It's been not great.

Certainly for the Dow names like Microsoft and McDonald's

Intel and Home Depot dragging that index lower today. And speaking of

Microsoft, tech, a big laggard. In fact, every one of the so-called Magnificent

7 in the Red Today, Adobe also sinking after its earnings and chip equipment names like

Lamb Research, Applied Materials, and KLA Tencore falling sharply after a negative news report about the future of

semiconductor orders. So Tech is broadly weak. Look at those losses across the

board from those stocks. We're just talking about 5% and in some cases more than that gets deeper for

Netflix. Look at the week to date on the right-hand side of your screen. Down

more than 10% over the past five sessions alone.

Down 1% again today,

we'll keep our eyes there over this final stretch.

As for interest rates,

well they're a headwind today,

mostly higher across the curve.

And there you go, pretty good look, 2 5, 10, 30, the curve. There you go pretty good look to 5. 10 30 the long end

short end no matter where you look they're in the green yields are. Takes us to our

talk of the tape. We're now halfway through a historically bad month for stocks and they've shown some remarkable

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