The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. That period from Christmas through the ...

Stocks typically rally over the holidays, but that hasn’t happened this season.

Traders had hoped a banner year for the S&P 500 would end in a "Santa Claus Rally"—a run-up commonly seen over the last five ...

Santa Claus is leaving investors in the lurch once again in 2024 as U.S. stocks have struggled during the typically bullish ...

Stocks are stumbling into the end of the year. After falling 1% on Friday, markets are indicated lower by another 1% in ...

The Dow closed slightly higher on Thursday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed lower in the second day of a so-called Santa ...

US stock markets have consistently lacked breadth over the last few weeks, entering 2025 with notable divergences. Gains are ...

Yes. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will both operate on half-day schedules, closing at 1 p.m., while bond markets ...

Despite year-end selling, market conditions look promising for 2025.

Wall Street is eager for a so-called Santa Claus rally to propel the S&P 500—up about 25% this year through Monday's close—to ...

The weakness was atypical as equities tend to do well in the last five trading days of December and into the first two days ...

Dec. 31 window, known as Santa Claus rally, averaging 0.85% return in 64 out of 96 years. 2018 saw strongest rally of 6.6%.