a fair amount of action for a shortened trading session, especially the day before christmas. markets with brian schactman at big board. brian, s&p 1126 about to pun. through what some have called short term resistance here. we don t have brian. here s our special guest. some of best insight he s given us in months. we ve been waiting for that. my son johnny here. welcome. hi. can you read did you read the board there? you see the dow jones up there, johnny? it just changed. 10519. pretty good. hoe likes the nas. he s more had a good time. happy holidays. we ll see you. [ bell ringing ] it is 1:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is hi, everybody, pewelcome to th closing bell. i m maria bartiromo. stocks rally again the fifth day in a row with the major indices hitting new highs for the year. a lot more on all of the market action coming up on this christmas eve holiday. first our team with more on top stories. democrats have achieved