Stocks opened higher on the final Friday of 2025, but lost steam as the session wore on. Still, the Santa Claus Rally remains alive and well, which bodes well for equity investors in the new year.
Indeed, according to Yale Hirsch, who first identified the Santa Claus Rally in 1972 and published his findings in the 1973 edition of the "Stock Trader's Almanac," the seasonal period occurs over the last five trading days of the year and the first two of the new year.
