Then the focus shifted to anticipation of QE4 and the Santa Claus rally began.
We send letters to the Santa Claus Main Post Office in the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland.
The Santa Claus rally now shows a rise of 5.5% since November 16.
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History has shown that stocks rise in the days leading up to the holiday, a phenomenon known as the Santa Claus Rally.
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The Santa Claus rally slowed to a gain of 5.9%.
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The Santa Claus rally is now a gain of 5.6%.
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Within this environment the Santa Claus rally that began on November 16, due to optimism about finding solution to the fiscal cliff, ended on December 18 due to the lack of progress in doing so.
The FOMC announced QE4 last week on December 12 and the highs that day could be the highs for the highs for December and signal that the Santa Claus rally has indeed stalled, and the market focused back to the cliff.
Nicholas, the original Santa Claus, passed on, people around the world took his place.
"This is another negative indication on top of the missing Santa Claus Rally, a down First Five Days and the Dow closing below its December closing low on January 21 triggering the December Low Indicator, " says Hirsh, who adds that the market is completing a two-year bearish "three peaks and a domed house" pattern coined by technical analyst George Lindsay.
The commercials depict Santa Claus and the Coke polar bears who prefer Pepsi to Coke when not on the job.
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MRS. OBAMA: And when you wake up in the morning Santa Claus will have been there, right?
The "Santa Claus Rally" remained intact on Friday, but just barely.
This Santa business, which he pursued after attending the nearby Professional Santa Claus School in Denver, moves him.
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In keeping with the festive season Santa Claus will be in Tayto Park from 27 November to 24 December when the entire park will be twinkling with thousands of special LED lights.
But the company reiterated Wednesday it has no plans to pull the plug on Santa Claus or polar bears, which are popular with children and have been fixtures in Coke ads since the 1920s.
Then there's the truly bizarre "Santa Claus" from Mexico, in which Santa has to fight off one of the devil's minions (who spends most of the movie prancing about in his red makeup and tights), while keeping a close watch on all the children of the world, using advanced spying methods, such as a disturbing eye telescope.
The truth is that the company that popularized the modern image of Santa Claus and whose trademark hoopskirt bottle spread across the globe in the hands of U.S. soldiers during WWII hasn't come up with a memorable campaign or a knock-your-taste-buds-silly new flavor in years.
The team that traverses the obstacle course the fastest wins the title of Santa Claus World Champion, along with 1, 500 Swiss francs in prize money.
At the Christmas Day party, I have the hopeless task of organising the games for excited children - and parents - until rescued by the arrival of Santa Claus.
We may even be building our own personal value system when faced with the inherent pressure of questions surrounding everything from the proper utilization of money to the existence of Santa Claus.
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After dinner--and the visit from Santa Claus--we would retire to their library, where they would pull out various literary gems and talk about them in a way that even an obtuse rock-'n'-roll-loving youngster could be impressed with.
The truth is the company that popularized the modern image of Santa Claus and whose trademark hoop skirt bottle spread across the globe in the hands of victorious U.S. soldiers during World War II hasn't come up with a memorable campaign or a knock-your-taste-buds-silly new flavor in years.
The credit crunch highlighted that the U.S. can no longer play Santa Claus to the world.
The game show hosts were like Santa Claus -- rewarding the "nice" contestants with cash, cars and bedroom sets, while punishing the "naughty" players with zonks, whammies and lifetime supplies of Turtle Wax and Rice-a-Roni.
Then about three weeks later the American Christmas Man, the Dutch name for Santa Claus, will show up.
Gone are the days of writing a wish list to Santa Claus and sending it to the North Pole.
Think of what a monstrous revelation the true nature of Santa Claus is.
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