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.

The Santa Claus rally has long been attractive to investors looking to end the year on a high note. North American markets have already experienced robust growth throughout 2024, but the prospect ...

Stocks fell on Thursday, further dampening investor hopes for a Santa Claus rally this year. Historically, a weak beginning to the year hasn't been a good sign for stocks.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Santa Claus rally delivers S&P 500 gains, averaging 0.85% during December’s final days. Ten S&P 500 stocks historically outperform during the Santa Claus rally window. The stock market has a ...

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 ...

Investors look set to be disappointed as the “Santa Claus rally” has so far failed to materialize for the second year in a row. - AFP via Getty Images Santa Claus is leaving investors in the ...

Stock indexes closed mixed on Thursday in their first trading session after Christmas, disrupting a so-called Santa Claus rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained around 29 points to close 0 ...

This year markets turned down in mid-December, but as of Christmas Eve the Santa Claus rally seems to have arrived — the S&P 500 gained 1.1 percent that day alone, and the Nasdaq Composite Index ...

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 rally is less than half its return in years ...