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Personal Finance and Investing

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Fri Dec 24, 2021, 12:29 AM Dec 2021

The final five trading days of the current year and the first two trading days of the new year have traditionally been a good period for Wall Street. Since 1928 the S&P has been positive 79 percent of the time registering about a 1.7 percent gain.
In any event, it's been a damn good year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/santa-claus-may-be-on-his-way-to-stock-investors-in-the-week-ahead.html

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Will Santa Claus come to Wall Street? [View all] Tomconroy Dec 2021 OP

There is a reason stocks are so high. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2021 #2

Thank you for that post and all the specifics. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2021 #5

Just wish I had bought more at the dips! 58Sunliner Dec 2021 #3