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Reporters. Taylor i will take a look at a chart here i am showing which is looking at the s p 500 for the month of december. I know it is only the first day of trading in december. We are off about 0. 8 . This comes after a very good november in which we had our best month since june. If you think about historically where we have been, december 2017, nothing really happened. December of 2018, a big bottoming out. The index lost more than 9 , bottoming out there on Christmas Eve before a big run up which led to the 25 gain or self we have seen gain or so we have seen this year. Is relatively muted. Still early days. We will have to see how the rest of the month unfolds. Called the skew index, the panic index. Last summer, well ahead of the Fourth Quarter volatility, the skew index in white here, highly elevated as the vix index. Stocks took a big nosedive in blue. The vix then caught up. This year, volatility relatively suppressed as the s p 500 going for near alltime highs. Since octob