All right, Kelly, thanks. Welcome to closing bell. I'm Scott Wobner live from Post 9. Right here at the New York Stock Exchange. This make-a-break hour begins with suddenly streaking Apple. That stock's up seven of the past eight days, even as one well-known analyst now says Tim Cook needs to go. We'll discuss and debate that with Dan Ives and Steve Kovac in just a moment. We'll show you the scorecard here with 60 to go in regulation.

Speaking of Apple, the tech sector hitting another record high today.

It's like a broken record hitting those records, but it is what it is.

Several chip names like AMD continue to move higher, the SMH, at a 52-week high.

Elsewhere, several banks are higher ahead of their earnings next week.

We'll watch all of those over this final stretch. How about the airlines? They're ripping.

They have been all day long. After Delta gave strong guidance, that stock, along with United

and American Airlines having one of their best days in a very long time. It does take us to our

talk of the tape.

That stunning call about Tim Cook. Longtime analyst Walter Pichick made it on this very network

last night, and it's been the talk of the town ever since. Let's bring in our resident expert

reporter Steve Kovac, along with star analyst Dan Ives of Wedbush, who is here with me at Post 9.

Steve Kovac, you've been critical.

You've been critical of Apple.

You've been critical of their missteps in AI.

You haven't and wouldn't, of course, in your role call for Tim Cook to be ousted.

However, what do you think about Walter Pichick doing just that?

This is not some far-off blogger from who knows where. This man's been on the street for a long time

and has covered this area for a very long time. Yeah, and he's also giving an argument for Cook to leave on a very long and

old argument, which is Apple needs a product guy versus the operator. And look, I've been covering

this company for so long, Scott, and I've heard this the entire time throughout Tim Cook's

tenure, that he is to focus on operations.

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