Where’s My Damn Santa Rally?
Someone check the stocks. They might be unplugged, like so many strands of Christmas lights whose time to shine has come and gone for another year.
US shares trundled through another lackluster session to start New Year's week, further dampening hopes for a so-called "Santa Rally." Equities, history (or legend) has it, "should" rise over the final five sessions of the outgoing year and during the first two trading days of the new calendar.
Alas, the S&P was on track for a third straight de