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Closing Bell Overtime: Jobs Data Pushing Fed to Hold at Next Meeting? More AI Models Go Rogue 8/7/26

Closing Bell

The Bell's bringing an end to the trading day at the NYSE, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, ringing the bell. And at the NASDAQ Whole Foods Market International and the National Young Farmers Coalition closing out the week. Welcome to Closing Bell Overtime. We're live from Studio B at the NASDAQ Market Site. I'm Melissa Lee. Mike Santelli is off today. Stocks higher across the board today with tech once again leading the way, helped by some big gains in software. Dow up about 150 points, S&P 500 gaining a half a percent. That is a closing level, record closing level. The NASDAQ gaining one and a third percent.

And that wraps up another big week for the market. Three percent for the Dow in S&P, five percent for the NASDAQ. It's best week in more than three months. We'll get to all of that, but also on our radar at the close. The president attending an event with mining CEOs as gold jumps this week from gold, golden arches, why McDonald's and Wendy's are struggling as Burger King sales surge, and the latest AI fears as OpenAI slows the release of its latest model. But we begin with another day of record highs for the S&P 500.

Christina Partsinevelos takes a look at the stocks which got us there. Christina. Oh, many. And tech, of course, is what I'm going to start with, because earnings really eased fears that AI would eat into the software business. CloudFare, Atlassian rose on upbeat guidance. Twilio jumped on its voice AI growth and raised outlook. AI infrastructure was also another major driver. Coherence specifically today again surged on reports the president or the Trump administration is weighing restrictions on Chinese data center components,

Closing Bell Overtime: Jobs Data Pushing Fed to Hold at Next Meeting? More AI Models Go Rogue 8/7/26

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Closing Bell Overtime: Jobs Data Pushing Fed to Hold at Next Meeting? More AI Models Go Rogue 8/7/26

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.