The Santa Claus rally is usually one of Wall Street’s favorite holiday traditions. Stocks tend to grind higher after Thanksgiving, volatility fades, and December often delivers one of the strongest months of the year.
This year, strategists say, Santa may not show up.
“None [of the months this year] have behaved the way they have seasonally," Amy Wu Silverman, head of derivatives strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told Yahoo Finance.
And there are plenty of reasons why. The year has offered reminder after reminder that this isn’t a normal market cycle: The DeepSeek meltdown in February, Presi