The U.S. stock market had a banner year ... watching for the so-called Santa Claus rally or the tendency of the market to rise in the last five trading days of the year through the first two ...

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 ...

"This raises the odds for a rate cut in March." The Santa Claus Rally – identified in the early 1970s by the creator of the Stock Trader's Almanac – doesn't mean what a lot of folks think it ...