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Of december and november was a very strong month for stocks, even though you did see some declines on black friday youre looking at the best returns we saw since june for all of the major averages. Last week again, you did see some big gains too right now the dow, s p and nasdaq are still less than 1 to 2 of the intraday highs with these gains, youll see them challenging that as tom mentioned. Although, i also remember last the first trading day of december last year. Not quite as much fun. I still have some night mares about that. Would not be the only one with scars leftover from that. I think the dow was down 15 at one point in december last year we were having a great year. Markets were up, not up like they are this year. Bottomed on christmas eve, december 24th and saw things take off from there. Its been a very strong year. Will a santa claus rally power the s p 500 and dow to their best year in a generation . Could happen. Were up a lot. What will that take to get there, 5 . Pro
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A reluctant lee requested by the Prime Minister westminster c o a deal. To. Come up. And we have 3 breaths that watchers with us here on to the point to help us penetrate the fog emanating from london it works for the irish times and he says Boris Johnson and his breakfast brothers have paralyzed europe for 3 years now there is a huge departure has become a deal or no deal game show but it can always get worse and it will. And its a pleasure to welcome john werth he is a british blogger living here in berlin he says a general election before christmas is now Boris Johnsons only way out of his selfinflicted mess. And were very happy to have ventilation from a great job. She works for the british magazine the economist and she says and hes are kicking the can down the road which means brecks it is less and less likely. And the money. So derek you say that johnson and his brothers in your words have paralyzed europe but arent we in fact seeing at least a little bit of movement now at leas
A weak economy which is left some saying theyre struggling to meet basic needs the Prime Minister has canceled fridays Cabinet Meeting and is expected to deliver a speech addressing the protests well jamal horseman is a journalist and former and its english she says the protests are a result of something that she was born in over. The timing of these measures and these new taxation methods that have been implemented couldnt have been at the worst time for the government and they were it was very audacious of them to bring this up the day after massive forest fires were destroying big swaths of land in the country and the whole people were feeling that the government was negligent and led to this and then the next day they come and lay these taxes on them so it was. Just this accumulation of things and and also we have to look back at the Prime Minister a couple of weeks ago having a big controversy with spending 16000000 dollars on this sub mysterious. Model while he fired all his staf