In late 2024, the Toronto Santa Claus Parade launched a GoFundMe to support the over-100-year-old tradition as its organizers, too, faced unprecedented financial difficulties. At the time ...

In late 2024, the Toronto Santa Claus Parade launched a GoFundMe to support the over-100-year-old tradition as its organizers, too, faced unprecedented financial difficulties. At the time, the Toronto ...

Michael Nagle / Bloomberg via Getty Images Stocks fell on Thursday, dampening investors' hope for a Santa Claus rally to start 2025. The S&P 500's average return in years without a Santa Claus ...

The Santa Claus rally failed to materialize this year. Historically, the market's performance at the end of one year correlates with results the following year. There are also fundamental reasons ...

The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. The period from Christmas through the second trading day of January marks the traditional definition of the ...

Santa Claus was a no-show on Wall Street for the second year in a row, but stock-market bulls may be able to take their lump of coal in stride if January gets the year off to a positive start.

Stocks tend to rise in what is known as a “Santa Claus rally” over the period that spans the last five trading days of the year through the first two of the next.