 Okay folks, Larry Pesavento with the mid-afternoon update in stocks. We've got the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 500, the S&P is up 60, NASDAQ up 178, the Russell up 35, Gold is up a buck, Silver is basically up 2 cents. And the big surprise here is the currency markets are weak, the Euro is weak, the pound is weak, the end is weak, only the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar have a little bit of an upside and that's just very, very meager. Remember folks, we are in a holiday season where we have very, very low volatility and low volume, all you have to do is check that for yourself. So be really careful, you can see how quickly the market can move 600 points. When someone says it's time to buy Apple, it runs six points very, very quickly. And that's very important to realize with this type of an environment that these markets can run very quickly and that's why stocks must be placed to protect yourselves because if you don't, nobody else is going to do that for you. Now I want to mention a couple other things. We've got a holiday coming up here folks, Christmas Day is on Sunday this year and that means that the holiday that we're going to be observing is going to be on Monday. So the markets will be closed on Monday. Most of the world, all the free world of course, the markets all will be closed. Anything where there's Christians in there, they're going to be closed. The other where you have a Buddhist and other faith, those markets may or may not be open and even if they are, they're very, very thin and that's why even countries that have these different religions are shut down, like Hong Kong, China, all these countries are shut down. So that's major, major thing to remember that these markets, but they'll start again on Monday, Sunday night and Monday, Christmas night and Monday. They'll be starting up on Klobeck. So then the party starts and the party really starts right after the new year where many, many of these people come out and change strategies just because it happens to be the new year, whether it's good or bad, they may change. You know, if you got something good, stick with it. But if you don't, you know, maybe look at something else. One other thing to remember folks is to try to help your fellow man out there because folks out there, they need it and try to give them a little helping hand and you'll be rewarded someday. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will be rewarded. So we'll see all the flip side tomorrow. Live every day in an attitude of debt gratitude and God bless. This is Billy Ray Valentine, Capricorn, signing off.