Brian, thanks so much. Welcome to closing bell. Scott Wobner live from Post 9 here at the New York Stock Exchange.

This maker break hour begins with 24 hours of AI anxiety. That is what lies ahead as Nvidia earnings bloom, especially large tomorrow.

Results that could very well make a break the next move for the tech trade. We will discuss with our experts over this final stretch.

What is really at stake for this market?

The scorecard looks like this with 60 to go in regulation, mostly modest advances today for the

major's not much reaction to news. The president says he's firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

She says not so fast. We will watch for any developments there this hour.

Watching Apple shares too after yet another report says the company entertain the idea of buying

AI startup perplexity. We'll dive into that further as well. It takes us to our talk of the tape.

The next leg of this record setting rally. It's clear where our headliner stands on that topic.

He's bullish. As you know,

he is FundStraughts. Tom Lee joins us now post-nights. Good to see you. Great to see you, Scott.

So, Nvidia looms large. Does that make or break whether your bullishness comes to fruition

moving forward? I mean, I know investors are really anxious and NVIDIA has not performed well the last

few times it's reported, but the story arc there remains that that is one of the most important

companies in the world in the middle of the biggest structural change in the world economy.

So I think NVIDIA still is a great story. It really wouldn't change our thesis if the stock reacted poorly.

You feel like there's become a little more AI anxiety, as we wrote at the top.

You know, from Sam Altman at Open AI saying that, you know, investors are a little over-eager about AI.

You know, meta's reorganized again.

They've stopped their hiring.

There was another report today that suggested some of these Gen-I-A models,

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