 Good morning everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TFNN headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida 9 a.m. Eastern time Thursday morning 30 minutes ago until the opening bell and we got a mixed market pretty calm out there right now S&P futures trading at 3196 Nasdaq futures negative by five trading at 86 15 Dow futures positive by four points trading at 28,285 the 10 year yield quite a number as we continue to inch higher 1.93% so far this morning we'll start things off we'll jump over the VIX as we inch towards that Christmas holiday 6 days until Christmas if you haven't gotten that Christmas shopping done you better get on it start off the week but we just might see a slow escalation to nothing as we come into Christmas and then New Year's the following week start things off let's jump over to the charts we'll start it off with the Dow as you can see pretty muted action this morning a trading range of about 30 to 40 Dow points currently trading 28,287 we're above 28,300 briefly earlier this morning Nasdaq 100 trading at 86 15 we're about 10 points off the high that we had just prior to 6 a.m. S&P 500 trading at 3195 we're up there at almost 3202 again prior to 6 a.m. this morning crude oil market a little bit of volatility and crude this morning just right now $60.94 making pre-market session highs almost at 61 gold contract with volatility as well we just got weekly jobless claims we'll jump over to that in a moment gold trading at 1480 on the dot and the Euro U.S. Dollar trading at 111 13 terms of what else you have happened and I mentioned it there weekly jobless claims coming in at 830 a.m. this morning falling from a two year high but are still worse than expected initial claims for state unemployment benefits falling to 234,000 for the week ended December 14th that drop did unwind the priors week jump of 49,000 and that was at 250 2,000 other news out there China announces new tariffs as we for U.S. chemical and oil products as the tariff war continues we got of course our trade one use me phase one deal but nonetheless that is going to persist and how about Tesla yesterday all-time highs for Tesla almost at $400 looking to open this morning at $396 and 38 pennies day to folks we got a man Larry Pesavento coming up live right now with trade what you see at 9 o'clock I'll be back at 10 o'clock with Tom live programming all day at TFNM we'll be right back