All Three Major Indices Hit All-Time Highs -- Boxing Day, 2019

S & P 500:

• up 1,6.53 points
• up 0.51%
• closed at 3,239.91
• intra-day high: 3,240.08
• 52-week high: 3,240.08

NASDAQ:

• up 69.51 points
• up 0.785
• closed at 9,022.39 (first time ever over 9,000)
• intra-day high: 9,022.46
• 52-week high: 9,022.46

DOW:

• up 105.94 points
• up 0.37%
• closed at 28,621.39
• intra-day high: 28,624.10
• 52-week high: 28,624.10

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Four Biggest Economies In Europe: Will Struggle To Recover In 2020 -- Barron's

Data points from the article (paywall; access through Starbucks):

• UK will leave the EU at the end of January, 2020
• Boris will look to clinch an economic deal before the end of 2020
• UK's hope: inflation will remain low ('cause the economy won't grow) and then the Bank of England can lower rates -- LOL -- if the economy takes a turn for the worse)
• the UK at least has a stable government (Boris' landslide); not the same can be said for:
• Germany: leadership split among two parties; political paralysis likely
• Germany's unemployment barely more than 3% so unlikely it would incentivize fiscal expansion
• France: EU's strongest growth rate;
• same problem as Germayn -- political paralysis
• Italy: will continue to underperform
• staggering under a debt load topping 130% of GDP
• (is US debt load about 105% of GDP?)