Michael Nagle / Bloomberg via Getty Images 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 ...

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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 ...

And yet, when parents and others encourage, even incentivize, children’s belief in Santa Claus, they encourage children to form a belief based on what these parents and others know is poor evidence – ...

The Santa Claus rally failed to materialize this year. Historically, the market's performance at the end of one year correlates with results the following year. There are also fundamental reasons ...

In fact, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader's Almanac, previously discovered the stock market's tendency to climb in the final days of the year, and he called it the "Santa Claus rally." ...

The teenager, disguised as "Santa Claus," stabbed one guy and wounded another, according to local media. Online footage of the first altercation showed a group of young males attacking the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America’s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide — but Saint Nicholas' origin story is not.

According to the National Resistance Center, before the ban, “cultural brigades” from Russia gave concerts to children in the occupied territories where children were exposed to cultural characters ...

After Donald Trump suggested he might take over Greenland by force, the consensus among the island’s population appears to be bewilderment and anxiety. By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli ...

James Plytas was working at his neighbourhood grocery store in the early 1970s when he first saw it. Much to his excitement, he was featured in the Toronto Star sports section. “It was over the ...