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3% here. overnight in asia, the nikkei hit and held 16,000 for the first time in six years and then hong kong and europe are closed. happy boxing day, by the way. our road map begins with the markets. today looks to be yet another record day for stocks. all the major indices set to open in positive territory. plus, call it a shipping nightmare. thousands of packages were missing on christmas morning after ups and fedex reported extraordinary delays because of hive demand at the last minute. and what does history tell us about market strategy for 2014? your play book ahead in just a few minutes. first up, though, stocks poised to open higher after coming off of record closings on tuesday. a gain today would be its sixth straight, something it has not done since a ten-day winning streak in march. of all days on the calendar, the s&p is likely to be up today, 79% of the time since 1945. this is the start of the official santa claus rally, isn t it? on average a gai ....
moscow are obviously watching the situation very carefully on that epicenter of resistance after a night of street battles between protesters. the pictures are amazing. they re throwing stones, clubs, molitov cocktails, all of them trying to hold their grounds in those hours but being slowly pushed back this morning by riot police themselves using flash bangs or stun grenades and water cann cannons. much of the square, more than half of it, while some protesters seem to have taken refuge behind reinforced barricades and behind their bonfires. the number of injured is in the 200s. we understand some 250 seriously wounded are being treated in the hospitals. also, one local ukrainian journalist has reportedly been shot and killed in that melee, as well. becky, back to you. one of the questions we wonder and you re watching from moscow where they are keeping track of the situation closely, is there a sense that anyone else might get involved in this or is this people watc ....
woman, leaning and kissing a woman in times square in new york on the third day. or maybe you prefer politics. how about churchville, stalin and roosevelt a filter sitting down together. maybe that image. or maybe you d rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. if you re having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. can you find that famous iconic image in your mind? that image by dorothea lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. the images you ve conjured up in your mind have been black and white. very, very likely. so i d like you to do the same exercise but think of japanese imprisonments. think of the imprisonment of japanese americans during the war. so what are you picturing? does it look like this? a bunch ....
thank you for joining us, everybody. here on markets now, i am connell mcshane. into the trading session, stocks are extending their holiday run. a lot to talk about, peter schiff will, in a minute. juan williams later on. but we will start with lauren simonetti in the stock market. lauren: 105 million shares trading hands down here, but not only up arrows, but record highs. the nasdaq flying higher as is the s&p 500, if you re keeping track, which we are. counting today s close, 50 record highs counting today s price, 50 record highs for the dow jones industrial average in 2013. we haae not seen a number that big since 1995 when we had 59 record closes. december, as you know, is historically one of the best months of the year for the stock market. today is the best day of the month for the stock market. amazon.com. it was up quietly, but this year up 59%. 1 million customers became new prime numbers. connell: thank you very much. today is one of the best days to be i ....
will be breezy today. right now the wind is calm. nine in bartlett. 15 at the plate. normally we are in the mid 20 s so we are well below average. the wind chill is matching the air temperature reading now. it feels like 3 degrees in kenosha. a few clouds to the south. no major storms of any type will affect us for the next few days. we will have a warm-up after today. today we settle for highs in the mid to upper 30 s. for a mix of clouds and son today. 38 tonight. close to 50 tomorrow. we will be dry through the weekend into most of monday. more details on that in a bit. if you are smiling and i am smiling. today looks better on the roads. nice and clear. no major issues. travel times are right where we want them. wide open and clear. we did have an issue of a wrong way driver causing a crash on the skyway. police say the woman was driving northbound in the southbound lane when she forced an oncoming semi truck to swerve onto a retaining wall. that truck driver is ....