The "Santa Claus Rally" is a real thing, identified in 1972 by Yale Hirsch, the founder of the Stock Trader's Almanac. As Ryan Detrick of Carson Group explains, "One of the little-known facts ...

If an extra 9 basis points of performance in two weeks seems exciting enough to you, then sure, Santa Claus has been good to Wall Street. The same thing can not be said of Apple stock and its ...

(The S&P 500 was launched in 1957; stock performance before this year is based on its predecessor index, the S&P 90.) In years without a Santa Claus rally, the index’s average January return has ...

The stock market was mostly higher to start the ... Tuesday marks the start of the so-called Santa Claus rally window, which includes the final five days of a year and the first two days of ...

Stocks closed higher Wednesday, extending the Santa Claus rally for another day ... half-full approach to interest rates, though. "The stock market is too optimistic about the quantity of rate ...