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There you're taking a live look at the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and at the Nasdaq. Great bell ringers on both sides. Funfetti on one side and you see it there for the Celiac Disease Foundation in Midtown, Manhattan, in Times Square at the Nasdaq and Aspen, ringing the opening bell at the NYSC. All right, let's take a look at how we begin. Today's trading session here on this Friday's Eve, this Thursday, taking a look at the Dow, it's higher by about half a percent to begin today's trading activity just after the opening cross. Nasdaq composite, you're seeing that move higher by about 1%, S&P 500, that's up by about 7/10 of a percent. Let's dive a little deeper into the heat maps here, just to see what's transpiring out of the gate here this morning. You've got more leaders than laggards here on the sector front. 11 S&P 500 sectors, we've got them loaded up here for you on the screen. Pulling up the caboose, you've got healthcare right now. That's fading by about 7/10 of a percent here. And then additionally leading the pack, you've got consumer discretionary. Let's populate this so you could see the trailing five sessions here that we've been tracking in over the past five days. It's been interesting to watch. Overall, though, we are still net higher by about 1 and 1/2% for consumer discretionary. Technology has also been in the leading category out the gate here this morning of sectors. You're seeing that higher by about 1%. And over the course of this week, it's largely held on to gains right now, in aggregate up over 2.3% over those five sessions here. Taking a look deeper at those tech names for the mega cap tech stocks, you're seeing some pretty sizable gains out here of the gate. Microsoft, Amazon, those are up more than 1%. Alphabet, Google, whatever you call them, call them up higher by 1% as well. And meta as well, also adding on about 1.7% here to begin today's trading activity. A few spots of red here, so we'll put this on an equal view. It looks like you could count those on two hands almost if you have some extra fingers. But ultimately, at the end of the day, it's Fortinet that's bringing up the caboose there. That's down by about 10%. It was actually one of our leaders yesterday that we were tracking here. And so we'll continue to track that as we move on throughout the rest of today's trading session. And let's just take a brief look at the Dow 30, those 30 components, Dow Jones Industrial Average here on the day. And looks like you have more leaders than laggards led by the big ears over at Disney and right now, Amgen, that is in the back of the pack. That's down by about 3.4% to begin today's trading activity.