Session highs for the markets. Three days for three. The s p 500 is at that 1 mark, trading at 2059. 1 . Dow is up by 8 10 of all of this coming off betterthanexpected data. Dive into my bloomberg terminal. I want to show you the seasonality heat map. This is your favorite function. Take a look at this christmas tree, red and green. I want you to focus on a couple red blocks here. This is for the month of december 2015. Right now we are on track for a negative of 1 . Getting closer to actually turning into the green for december, and the last time we had a loss on the order of 6 was back in 2002. We will be watching that as the day goes on and as the week goes on through the end of the year. In addition to that, i want you to take a look at the s p year to date. I want you to see look at this number, we are not in the red anymore. Now, positive for the year to date. Look at the volatility we have been going through. The s p 500 has actually flipflopped between positive and negative ter
Better performing housing sector . We well, it really feels like a santa claus rally is getting under way. Stocks are up for a third day. As we stand, lets take a look at the numbers. The dow is currently sitting at 17,559. It is not break even get for the year but it is up. The s p 500 is one point in the green for the year. Its crossed over that break even line so many times. Were rich, were rich, were rich. I never thought santa was going to come, and i still believe in santa. Oil soaring. New data showing a big drop in inventories. Crude up more than 4 , about 3. 9 for west texas. Highest levels in more than a week. Gasoline up 5 tracking for its biggest oneday gain since last november. Well, as for chipotle, those shares are edging higher this hour by 0. 2 , but the embattled mexican fast food chain has been taking drastic steps as the restaurants try to contain the e. Coli crisis. Morgan brennan has more details on this. What are they doing . On the heels of the outbreak that sic
Thats in the skinny on this tuesday, december 22nd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning on this tuesday. Im reena ninan. Personal, not political. Im kendis gibson. Good timing to have a new baby in 2016. Right in the middle of it all. In an election year. Well get to the details of that. Theres never a good time to plan to have a child. Especially a second child. You dont realize with the first. So much changes. For me personally. I should not generalize for women and parents everywhere but it was like having a thousand children having my second one. Ill take your word for it. Hey, its a great tax writeoff though. There you go. Thats an upside. Lets talk about the race for the white house because it is still heating up. About 40 days till the first war is going on war, war of words bean donald trump and Hillary Clinton. If its a boy it probably wont be called donald. Last night trump took a new swing at clinton using what some might say as a vulgar reference a
And good morning, america. Dan and paula are off. Im tom llamas with cecilia vega. Someone let us come in this morning. Rachel, good to s see you. You too. Hope you had a happy holiday. Cant leave ron out. We want to start with showing you the incredible video were getting out of Southern California right now. Take a look, the hills blazing, all along this higginbotham, drivers blinded by the thick smoke. The f flames whippedp by strong winds, as well and that firire right now is still growing. Families in the path forced to evacuate. Firefighters cutting short their christmas to fight these flame overnight andabcs Kna Whitworth is righthere in Ventura County with more. Kayna, good morning to you. Reporter cecilia, so we have a very fast winddriven fire that has literally exploded overnight. You can clearly see the dramatic flames behind me and this road is closed buts these cars are firefighters out he, of course, Ventura County sheriffs. It started on the hillside but the wind pushed
We have that frost covering the trees, it was christmas magic across the area. Cloud cover from 7 p. M. Until 10 p. M. By the Early Morning hour, we will see rain here in central iowa. There will be a considerable difference to the north before they have a mix. Already some very light snow in western iowa, but Winter Weather advisorys to the north. Back to minnesota and south dakota, that is where the heaviest snow will be. We will get light snow in northwestern iowa. I will have amounts on that, coming up. And also, a system to watch earlier next week. Futurecast coming up, in just a few minutes. Ryan thousands of people are counting their blessings on this Christmas Day, after heavy weather this week spawned several tornadoes, killing at least 14 people. Dozens more were injured. And today, survivors are now sharing what they went through. Nick valencia reports. Nick this christmas, scenes of devastation in parts of the south and midwest. Flooding across north georgia, and tornadoes