It is positive. Nine days of the last ten trading sessions. S p 500 also on track to close at a record high for the 52nd high in 2014 and nasdaq just turned positive for the month of december. And is trading around the highest level since back in 2000 and a close eye on the russell 2000. The index of small caps trying to close at a new high. We are seeing intraday records for the First Time Since june. If it does close at a record, thats the First Time Since back in march. And just think last october it was down as much as 20 from that march 4th high. Talk about a round trip for the small caps index. Incredible rebound. Talk about it with the guests today in the exchange. We have rob morgan with us. Jim lowell. Nicole sinclair. And our own jeff cox from cnbc. Com. We have trader Matt Cheslock and, matthew, ill start with you. What do you make of whens going on right now. Back at alltime highs including those small caps that were hit so hard through much of this year. Yeah, well, time t
Welcome back to squawk box here on cnbc first in business worldwide. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen. Becky enjoying the day off. And for viewers outside of the United States, happy boxing day. It comes from a tradition where boxes were given to people and the box would include a gift or two and perhaps some leftovers from the tables of the wealthy. I used to think it was boxing day. I didnt know. I learned this about a decade ago, but every year we get emails from people saying thank you for explaining that. We didnt know. Its said some of the boxes include gifts. Do some of the boxes people just give boxes . I think sometimes it was leftover food. Food or but not just boxes, right . I have to tell you, my children jumped into an empty box yesterday. Thought it was a rocketship and thought that was the greatest gift they could have gotten. Remember in splash he gives Darryl Hannah a box and she goes its beautiful. No, open it. Because you dont know for sure if its wrapped nice.
My question is having each of you work throughout your lives on some pretty small to i ammely large films, curious. How have you been able to preserve your own comedic voice in this plethora of media, and where are you willing to compromise . Us, with movies i think there is a temptation to try to acquire as much money for your budget as humanly possible. Its a sign of success on the surface in hollywood, if you thatspensive movies, the upper echelon. If you make cheaper movies, you are the lower echelon. The unspoken implication is you want to be making bigger, more expensive movies. When we were getting more successful, thats exactly what we did. Were able to make a 150 150 Million Dollar movie, so we did. We quickly found that budget robbed us of everything that made us creatively valuable, and everything we enjoyed most about the process itself. If we think of a new idea, we can do it. If someone takes of a joke, we can do it. We learned money actually robs very large,ring which is
Encounteredrs characters in a very clever and effective way. We are adapting a book right now for classroom use with a series of cgi short films. All these things. We love passion stuff. We love great ideas for passion projects. This question wants to do roleplaying. She says i am talking to my neighbor but even go immigration and he tells me a story about a 22yearold quietly living her life, working at a grocery store, and this person is illegal. Now what . What story are you going to tell him . Not one of theis issues that gets me as fired up as other ones. I would not be the best person to convey a response on that. Could pull up the negative ramifications of immigration. The most immigration we get his cubans turning a roof into a boat and floating over. I would use whatever characters or personal stories you could that illegal immigration has had negative ramifications on your life. That is something closer to home for you guys. Book . E you written a if not, why not . Illiteracy.
They expect results. [laughter] great story about entrepreneurship. Here is kind of how the host of the show interjects himself in a little bit of that episode and movie. [video clip] good evening. Listen, we are in a lot of trouble with the epa. If you stick around, we have to fill out a lot of interdimensional commerce forms. If you could relocate to new jersey or maybe canada, you would be doing us a solid. Thanks. Are you a god . Half on my mothers side. Were not very religious about it. Go once or twice a year on holidays. Then [screams] that is the opening bit they do. They discuss the aims of the show themes of the show. It is a great entrylevel way without saying i would love to talk to about economic and they are falling asleep. Another great humor is satire. We supported a film make a film based on the writings of a socialist. Kurt donovan wrote a disturbing tale or as liberals call it, and magical dream it takes place in the year when government has made everyone equal thing