Santa Claus gestures on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock ExchangeBRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images US stocks rose in a shortened holiday trading ...

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 ...

Michael Nagle / Bloomberg via Getty Images Stocks ... year after a Santa Claus rally, according to a recent analysis by LPL Financial. (The S&P 500 was launched in 1957; stock performance before ...

The Santa Claus Rally was first coined by noted stock market analyst Yale Hirsch back in 1972. It was Hirsch who first noticed the trend that the stock market tends to rise in the last five ...