$S&P 500 index(.SPX.US)$ The table below lists each year since 1945 th...

$S&P 500 index(.SPX.US)$ The table below lists each year since 1945 that the S&P 500 was up over 1% in the week leading up to Christmas along with how it performed in the final week of the year. Of those 23 prior years, there were actually 14 where the S&P 500 rallied 2% or more in the week leading up to Christmas with the last occurrence seven years ago back in 2014. While those types of gains may have put investors in a good mood for the Christmas holiday, it didn’t leave much powder left for the last week of the year as the median gain was just 0.05% with positive returns half of the time.