Our modern day version of Santa is actually a combination of various legends and traditions from around the world. The post ...

The original Santa Claus was St. Nicholas ... Forty years later, political cartoonist Thomas Nast refined Santa’s image with a series of drawings in Harper’s Weekly. Nast’s Santa dropped ...

Eventually, St. Nicholas morphed into the secular Santa Claus. Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years ...

Thomas Nast ... Spanish citizen who recognized him from Nast’s cartoons. He was returned to prison in the U.S. and died in jail in 1878. Nast drew Santa cartoons for Harper’s Weekly each ...

Michael Nagle / Bloomberg via Getty Images Stocks fell on Thursday, dampening investors' hope for a Santa Claus rally to start 2025. The S&P 500's average return in years without a Santa Claus ...

The Santa Claus rally failed to materialize this year. Historically, the market's performance at the end of one year correlates with results the following year. There are also fundamental reasons ...

The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. The period from Christmas through the second trading day of January marks the traditional definition of the ...

Santa Claus was a no-show on Wall Street for the second year in a row, but stock-market bulls may be able to take their lump of coal in stride if January gets the year off to a positive start.