{"id":19936,"date":"2025-01-07T09:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/opinion-article\/no-hubo-papa-noel-pero-aun-asi-fue-un-buen-ano\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:52:24","slug":"no-santa-claus-but-it-was-still-a-good-year","status":"publish","type":"opinion-article","link":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/opinion-article\/no-santa-claus-but-it-was-still-a-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No Santa Claus, but it was still a good year."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The market lost steam at the end of the year after registering huge gains, but there was some recovery&nbsp; at the end of last week.&nbsp;Although we did not get a Santa Claus rally, the S&amp;P surged 23.3% in 2024 and the Nasdaq Composite closed 28.6% higher for the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small cap stocks outperformed last week, leading the Russell 2000 to settle 1.1% higher. The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite each declined 0.5% for the week. High interest rates a strong USD were the culprits for the weak market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only three S&amp;P 500 sectors closed higher last week with energy up 3.2%, real estate +0.6%, and health care just barely positive (+0.01%).&nbsp; The losers were led by materials (-2.1%), consumer discretionary (-1.5%), and consumer staples (-1.4%).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US equity markets will be closed on Thursday (January 9<sup>th<\/sup>) in remembrance of former President Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15928,"template":"","categories":[479,666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19936","opinion-article","type-opinion-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-en","category-financial-analysis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opinion-article\/19936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opinion-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opinion-article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creandgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}