Good morning, Wall Street! It's another fine trading day for investors as Morning Brief hosts Seana Smith and Brad Smith break down the biggest market stories heading into the day's opening bell.

Top Wall Street executives are viewing the Federal Reserve's interest rate cutting cycle as a boon for US economic activity. Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) Co-CEO Scott Sperling comes on the program to elaborate on how Wall Street is interpreting the central bank's rate cuts from September.

US retail sales data is due out Thursday morning. Citi senior global economist Robert Sockin and Strategic Resource Group managing director Burt Flickinger comment on what consumer spending and delinquency figures can glean about the health of the economy.

To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here.

Other top trending stocks on the Yahoo Finance platform include Abbot Laboratories (ABT), Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel (INTC), J.B. Hunt Transportation Services (JBHT), L'Oréal (OR.PA), and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.