exchanging hands and that means a knee good oror bad headlines n swing markets upward. overall for 2019, it's shaping up01 to be a stellar year for te economy and markets. trade tensions have subsided and global growth is improving and central banks around the globe are printing money which injects liquidity into markets. the federal reserve has alluded to keeping interest rates where they arere for the time being. you have u.s. consumers spending. just last month you saw u.s. spending increased as americans bought more cars, spent more on health care. all factors that bode well for 2020. i like to point out that tomorrow is only a half day of trading, so investors are going to be heading home early but it's also the official first day of what we call the santa claus rally. last year, the dow fell 650 points on christmas eve. a lot can still happen, bret. >> bret: all right, we'll be