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Stock markets reopen this year on a Wednesday. Whenever Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall on Friday and Saturday or Sunday, the usual holidays are already taken up by the weekend. This means that many Federal institutions and businesses will declare an extra two days of holiday right after the weekend.
These extra holidays have occurred in [...]
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With the new seasonal cups out at Starbucks stores across the continent, it’s *clearly* time to begin thinking about the Christmas holidays. Although U.S. jobs data is on a slight – very slight – uptrend, we are still nowhere near back to the number of jobs pre-Lehman. Recent data I read suggested that about 232,000 [...]
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The Santa Claus Rally is the historic seasonality that occurs in the stock markets around Christmas and New Years. From about the 8th last trading day in December through the first three trading days in January, there has traditionally been fairly reliable upward swings in the markets, usually delivering positive returns.
According to Martin Roberge of [...]
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In the days leading up to Christmas, and various other times throughout the year, stock market trading thins considerably. Trading volume levels decrease as stock exchanges close early and many institutions are simply happy to hold onto their positions and wait out the end of the year with their gains.
Lower trading volumes mean less liquidity [...]
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Need ideas for stocking stuffers? Want to give a gift that helps others, too? How about some prepaid Visa debit cards that will also benefit the Breast Cancer Foundation?
ACE Cash Express and NetSpend have teamed up and donated $46,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) through an issue of pink prepaid Visa debit cards [...]
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Congratulations on opting for a minimalist Christmas, or at least thinking about how to have a clutter-free Christmas. If you’re like me and appreciate minimalism, but you also love giving gifts – you just need to find a way to buy or make gifts that don’t sit around and collect dust for the next three [...]
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It’s the end of November and another month has passed us by. The seasonal correction in the stock markets never really happened this year, along with other traditional seasonal trends that failed to confirm. Then again, this past year has been one of the more unusual for markets since the Great Depression. For example, the [...]
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