 update. Okay folks Larry Pesavento with the mid morning update, mid afternoon update here at TFNN on the 22nd of December and boy folks there's a fire sale going on in stocks today in fact everything as you look at the quote board today there are only two things that are up treasury notes are up one tick and and hogs are up 47 cents other than that it's red everywhere natural gas crude oil currencies the Dow Jones down almost 700 points the Dow the E-mini S&P is down a thousand points and the NASDAQ is down 41 411 points with the Russell being down 47 this is not good coming into a holiday folks there's a high probability tomorrow being Friday that the market should be up on the day before Christmas and if it is not that is a very negative sign and since the holiday comes on Monday this year that would mean there's going to be Sunday night trading of course because the rest some of the rest of the world is not following Christmas it'll be light of course but then they'll be trading Monday on on glowback so there's going to be a whole day in there so don't be surprised if you don't see some type of a big gap if we close lower on Christmas Day the markets are in a bare mode as you can see they can't make up their mind one day they get a good GDP number and that's bearish today they get a good G they get a bad GDP number that's bullish and today they had a good one and it's bearish and also they're talking about inflation being mitigated a little bit and then of course we have the president of the I guess he's the chief financial officer or whatever it is of the Ukraine Mr Zelinsky was there and he was talking to us about giving him money to fight the Russians for another four or five decades like we did in the Vietnam war I certainly hope that doesn't happen anyway folks just remember these last few days of the week here Thursday and Friday extremely volatile because of the lack of liquidity and it gets worse tomorrow I don't know if we're open all day or not as a matter of fact that that would surprise me if we were but nothing surprises me anymore and we also lost somebody very important to financial community for Scott Menard one of the big hedge fund guys passed away shaving this morning at the age of 62 had a massive heart attack and that was it and a very sad he was on CNBC is a regular all the time and a very very nice fellow I met him once or twice over the years and really a stand-up guy that very very humble man too anyway that's what we're watching here today so stay tuned for trade what you see it'll be coming up next and we'll be talking about some of these markets and where we think they're going to go and that's about all we can do do something for your friends out there folks it's Christmas