the market with the fourth straight day of gains pushing the dow and s&p to record closes. dow more than 150 points to hit the 35th record high close. the s&p with the 50th record. the biggest number of records in a year since 1995. stocks could swing higher today. you can thank gas prices for some extra cash this holiday season. gas prices have now fallen a record 89 days straight. aaa reported the longest consecutive streak. average prices dropped to $2.38. it is good news for whole day travelers. the group is predicting 98 million americans will hit the roads this season. the internet is back on in north korea after a huge outage. was it a cyber attack in retaliation for the sony hack? could the u.s. be involved?
that percent is great. this is good news. there s no other way to put it. look at these numbers. 4.6%, 5%. the u.s. economy is no longer the cleanest of the dirty shirts in the laundry. the u.s. economy is now brand-spanking clean, roaring forward, creating jobs, not making a political comment here. it s a simple fact did you just say roaring ahead with jobs? we have gained back all aft 7.8 million jobs lost during the recession. that coupled with the fact that gas prices are down for the 89th consecutive day at $2.38 a gallon. that s unbelievable. and it puts a lot more money in people s pockets and they re spending it. and the stock market puts on this last 1,000 because we had a blip a week ago. on december 16th, it was about 17,000. it s put on 1,000 points in a
wages. the average american hasn t been seeing the benefit, no pay rises. now that s beginning to change a little bit. that s quite exciting for many people in the market as well. now some of the analysts, the economists, they could go up 3.1% in 2015. that s the highest in ten years. as far as they are concerned, giving back a little bit of ground. the concern isn t the u.s., it s the asian and european data that s underwhelming. americans are taking advantage of low prices of fuel. global oil prices coming off aggressively. gas prices in the last two weeks down 12 cents. the regular gasoline on an average basis in the u.s. is . $2.72 a gallon. san francisco, $3.04 in san francisco, but albuquerque, $2.38, that is the cheapest in the country. there s good news for travelers who use new york city airports. i can t imagine what that is. well, i mean, like you as
2008. coming up, figures on inflation and consumer sentiment along with the first of earnings from jpmorgan chase and wells fargo. i m allison kosic in new york. asian investors followed wall street s lead hitting the sell button. things have wrapped up in tokyo, shang he, and sydney. they re in the last day of trading in hong kong. the markets all pull back. tokyo s nixon pull nikkei pulling back 2.38% points. thanks. here in the u.s., the troubled rollout of the obama administration s health care website may have claimed a political casualty. ical kathleen sebelius is stepping down from her post as health and human services after five years on the job. white house officials insist sebelius made the decision to resign and was not forced out. she was criticized after the website s disastrous launch last year. highway is took responsibility for the she s took responsibility for the problems before the congressional hearing in october. let me say directly to these
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