{"id":314009,"date":"2025-10-18T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:09:11","slug":"did-santa-come-early-to-wall-street-is-he-leaving-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314009\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Santa Come Early To Wall Street? Is He Leaving Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been monitoring the relationship between the S&amp;P 500&#8217;s ytd performance versus\u00a0its\u00a0comparable average of the past 10 years (chart). This year, the index\u00a0has been much more volatile than the average\u00a0and\u00a0has outperformed the average by about five percentage points since early August. Does this mean that the traditional Santa Claus rally started early this year and is over already? Over the past 10 years, the Santa rally has added about four percentage points to the average annual percentage gain of the S&amp;P 500\u00a0during November and December.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gateway-96.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Much will depend on investors&#8217; assessments of the credit\u00a0markets. They were spooked last week (just ahead\u00a0of Halloween) by news that Zions Bancorp incurred a $50 million charge-off in Q3 due to legal actions against two borrowers. Stock prices dropped sharply on Thursday, led by the KBW Regional Banking ETF (chart).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gateway-104.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#2e7e74\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve been monitoring the relationship between the S&amp;P 500&#8217;s ytd performance versus\u00a0its\u00a0comparable average of the past 10 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-314009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115396514324297392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}