Days well see what the last second to last trading day of the year has in store for us road map today starts with the recordbreaking year for stocks. The s p within striking distance of its best yearly gain since 97. Plus, teslas china play, the automaker ruling out first sedan from the shanghai factory with ramping up next month. We begin with the year end rally and the record run for stocks mike, it has been quite a year and we go into 2020 seemingly with a lot of momentum. Been a very, you know, kind of orderly low drama rally in december a lot of folks say we may be set up for a pullback. I think we keep having to remind people, it has been a great year, successive record highs for much of the year we started in a deep hole. I think thats important not to sort of downplay what a Strong Performance stocks have had had this year, but to point out theyre not necessarily all that far out on a limb because theyre up 30 of the 12month basis because theyre up about 11 from 15 months ago,
Vote is up for grabs. Sarah murray in New Hampshire, the venue for tonights republican debate. When you look at the big picture here and you look at rubio specifically on stage tonight, ahead of that surprise in iowa, not a surprise that he came in third but a surprise how closely he came in compared to donald trump, what is the focus going to be on rubio tonight . Reporter the focus is going to be all these other establishment republicans, jeb bush, john kasich, Chris Christie, trying to blunt marco rubio, to prevent the Establishment Base from coalescing around him. To do that i think youre going to see candidates going after rubios stance on abortion. He said in the first gop debate of the season he was opposed to any exceptions to abortion, that means rape, incest, life of the mother and weve seen both Chris Christie and jeb bush stake swipes over that. I would not be surprised if p you see that as a fault line on the stage tonight. It was interesting we heard senator Lindsey Graha