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 yet another major selloff as this final stretch gets underway today.

Let's show you the picture with 60 to go in regulation, red all over the place on more concerns about the president's trade war, his escalating attacks on Fed Chair Powell, all of it making the markets uneasy yet again.

Bond selling off the dollar hitting its lowest level

in some three years gold and bitcoin are up not much else is though it does take us to our talk of the

tape what might end what some say is a buyer's strike of u.s assets first let's go to the white

house and get the very latest from Megan Casella. Megan?

Hey, he's got a number of moving pieces at the White House here today.

The most notable being that we are expecting executives from four top retail companies,

that's Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowe's all here this afternoon for a meeting with the president.

Now, White House officials have confirmed the meeting this afternoon, but they would not say

exactly what officials will be discussing.

We can, of course, expect that tariffs are on the agenda, all four companies dependent to varying

degrees on imports from abroad.

Now, the meeting does come as the president has said that he would be willing to talk with

companies about these tariffs, and it comes just after he posted on social media over the weekend that businessmen

who criticize his tariffs are not only bad at business, he says, they're also bad at politics.

Two other topics this afternoon, Scott, on trade generally, I am told that negotiations are

still ongoing, of course, with a number of

nations and that a couple of those, maybe one or two, are close to being done but not finalized

just yet. The White House does believe, though, that those first announcements, once they come,

could bring sort of a domino effect that they believe will boost the markets, but a lot of wait

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