Santa took a nap today, but still decided to contribute a 'bit' to the 7-day stock market Santa Rally. Very narrow gains on expected holiday thin volume today.
Here's is this year's tally (using the ETF -- SPY -- as the proxy for the SP 500). Remember, this rally doesn't always take place. It works about 75% of the time. The SP 500 has gone up an average of 1.6% during this so-called Santa Rally 7-day period. Beats 0.01% in a money market fund.
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Day 1, 12/23: +0.89%
Day 2, 12/27: +0.08%
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