MONDAY 12/19/16; BOJ Two-Day Policy Meeting Begins; LEN; PMI Services Index; Dow 20K Watch Continues; NYSE Arca System Outage; NDX (Nasdaq 100) All-Time High; Fed Chair Yellen Speaks; Russian Ambassador Assassinated in Ankara, Turkey; Terrorist Attack in Berlin, Germany

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to stabilize the Berlin truck incident. Officials are hesitant to label the event as a terrorist attack until more information is gathered. Germany will not yet release the names of the two people inside the truck that drove the vehicle into the crowd. One minute people were happy and laughing enjoying the holiday festivities the next minute many lay dead as others grasped for breath. Lungs and limbs are crushed.