Santa Claus is looking like a no-show on Wall Street, 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.

Wall Street remains optimistic. The consensus price target for the S&P 500 in 2025 is 6715, 14% higher than where the blue-chip barometer ended in 2024.

Moreover, this is the beginning of another seasonally bullish period - the so-called Santa Claus rally. Can stock investors count on a stampeding bull once again? Not quite yet - but the bears ...

The so-called Santa Claus rally could get off to a late start this year. But better late than never. A team of strategists at Ned Davis Research pointed out that stocks have struggled ahead of the ...

The average gain during the Santa Claus trading window is even stronger, at 1.6%, when including stock returns going back to 1928, according to data from Bank of America. Here's where US indexes ...

The Santa Claus Rally was first coined by noted stock market analyst Yale Hirsch back in 1972. It was Hirsch who first ...

The benchmark S&P 500 rose 1.1% in shortened trading, the first session of the Santa Claus rally period that historically brings stronger-than-average returns, for the S&P, which tracks 500 of the ...

Stock indexes fell Thursday in their first trading session after Christmas to pare back some gains from a so-called Santa Claus rally earlier in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed ...

As the year winds down, a notable phenomenon captures the attention of investors and financial analysts alike: the Santa Claus Rally. This term refers to the consistent rise in stock market prices ...

Tuesday kicks off a historically merry period for investors, a stretch known familiarly as the Santa Claus rally for the positive stock market returns typically enjoyed during the holiday season ...

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.

Moreover, this is the beginning of another seasonally bullish period — the so-called Santa Claus rally. Can stock investors count on a stampeding bull once again? Not quite yet — but the bears ...