For investors, the real gift from Wall Street comes a day after Christmas

But for investors, the existent acquisition from Wall Street comes the time aft Christmas.

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For the S&P 500 SPX, Dec. 26 has historically been the astir reliably affirmative time of the year, according to an investigation from Bespoke Investment Group. During the 39 years since 1953 that the marketplace has been unfastened connected the time aft Christmas, the scale has lone declined six times, ne'er falling much than 0.5%.

When the marketplace is open, the Dec. 26 league has besides seen the index’s largest mean — 0.5% — and median — 0.4% — gains of the full calendar year.

“Seasonal trends should ne'er beryllium utilized arsenic a sole crushed for going agelong oregon abbreviated the equity market, but that’s beauteous consistent!” the Bespoke squad said successful commentary shared with MarketWatch.

This year, Friday’s league volition people the 2nd time of the “Santa Claus rally” period. The stakes for the rally are peculiarly precocious this year: The seven-day agelong that includes the past 5 trading days of 1 calendar twelvemonth and the archetypal 2 of the adjacent has produced antagonistic returns during the past 2 years.

Never earlier has Santa failed to travel 3 years successful a row, Dow Jones Market Data showed.

U.S. stocks traded higher connected Wednesday, with the S&P 500 up 0.3%. The Nasdaq COMP inched 0.2% higher, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA did the champion of the 3 large U.S. indexes, rising 0.6%.

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