Big implications for stocks and first the markets. Stocks snapping a fiveday winning streak ending at lows of the session. The s p 500 closing below 2,000. Oil was weak sending Energy Stocks lower by 4 and financials pulled back also to the teen of 11. 5 . So with cracks starting to show in the month long rally that weve seen, which half stocks or sectors could be the first now to burn out . Pete, what do you say . You know, im looking at the Energy Sector and specifically when i look in that sector im looking at will drillers and the problem with the drillers is they were so shorted and so hammered that they have added an absolutely incredible runup. Oil has made this move 26 to call it 37 and now all of a sudden you get a bit of a pull back and look at some of those names. They pulled back right along with it. Im not so sure that those names really have flipped around in terms of has the Company Really has much changed about everything with the drillers over the last week or two . I
Ownership, its coming down to just one number. Well tell what you it is and what it means. Lets check in with sara at the nyse. High, sara. Good afternoon. Hard to believe just two more months remaining until 2015 is done. Just about 50 trading days left in the year. Are we setting up for presents under the tree or coal in our stockin stockings . Dominic chu is taking a closer look at that question. Dom . Sara, how many times have we talked about seasonality in the markets over our years together here. But lets take a look at this, everyone talks about the santa claus rally and the seasonably strong Fourth Quarter for stocks. Well, lets take a look. Our data partners at kensho crunched the numbers and for the last two months of any year over the last ten years, so november to december returns, the s p is up on average over 1. 5 . The dow the same, and theyve both been positive in 8 of the last 10 instances. A decentsized gain although some would point out because of the strong gains we
Verge of another 40 move higher. Goldman sachs says yes and well explain the math that has them so bullish. But we start off with the markets. The dow and s p with strong gains. Soaring 247 points after a rate hike is a real possibility for december. So did the fed flash the buy sign for stocks and what should you be doing with your money right now, pete, what do you say. On monday weigh talked we talked about this. I said look at the way the financials traded. They were higher in the session and as we got into the afternoon we saw the minutes come out and talking about whether or not it was appropriate, it sounds like they said it is appropriate for a hike. Then you look at the financials, the way they took off. But technology was strong all day. I know it was apple and that was because of Goldman Sachs putting it on the conviction buy list. But you look at technology, it was microsoft and cisco. Then look at amazon. Names all over the place in the tech world moving to the upside. So
Nasdaq futures under pressure as well. London and paris have wrapped up abbreviated sessions. Germany, among the abbreviated markets that are closed on this new years eve. The client is in europe following a pretty brutal month for european stocks. We have seen some selling of treasuries lately. Yields higher today. A bit of a different story. Crude oil, arguably the story of the year. Down again under pressure. Both wti and brent above 30,000 a barrel. Will the s p finish in the green for the year . New years eve celebrations already kicking off around the world. Some cities canceling plans over security concerns. George lucas opening up about his breakup with star wars saying he sold out to the white slaves. Disney down 10 since november. Can the s p finish the year in positive territory . Thats a question that will be answer in the final day of 2015. Nasdaq leading with a year to date gabe of 7 . 0. 2 . Just 4. 5 points positive for the year. The dow jones, nearly, 1. 25 . Mike with
Company, about succession and more. Apparently that race is down now to two guys. Yeah. Well take a look at who they are and why they are potentially his successors. Lots of good questions there. Meantime, stocks are rallying on the first trading day of the month, and even though they are coming off the best month since october 2011. The big market story here is the nasdaq hitting 5,000. Remember, it was 15 years ago this month on march 10th 2000 to be exact when the nasdaq hit its peak. March 2009 when it hit its low. We Team Coverage for you. Melissa lee on why it is different this time around. Bertha coombs on what the fax 100 is telling us. Are first, dominik chew standing right next to me looking at the stocks that got us here. Dom, what are the names . I mean over the past year there have been stellar runups. Obviously, when were at 15year highs for the nasdaq a lot of companies have to contribute but its a market cap weighted index, and these are the stocks that have big market