Did the Grinch steal a rally? You're listening to Motleyful Money.

I'm Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined over the airwaves by Motleyful analyst Jason Moser. Jason,

thanks for joining me. Dylan, happy to be here, closing out an interesting year and getting ready to kick off a new one.

Yeah, it's that nice short week between Christmas and New Year's, where new cycle's a little bit slower.

We get to spend a little bit more time with some of the stories, maybe a little bit of time with people that don't have anything to do with work.

Did you have a nice holiday?

Yeah, yeah, it's a very busy

time for our household. We've got a lot going on in a 10-day stretch. So we've got a couple of birthdays,

a wedding anniversary, Christmas, New Year. So it's a lot crammed into one one holiday. But it's

so far, we've gotten through it unscathed and everybody seems happy. How about you?

Can't complain. You know, I had my fair share of holiday drinks, had my fair share of family time.

I am back home and very happy about that. And, you know, honestly, I mean, the stock market,

maybe like some of us that are now back at home after some holiday travel, dealing with a little

bit of a post-holiday hangover.

We have the S&P 500 down about 2% since Christmas. What happened to the Santa Rally?

Well, I mean, it's not unheard of for some selling to occur towards the end of the year, right?

I mean, we see sort of investment firms cleaning house,

investors kind of cutting away losers, taking advantage of some tax loss harvesting. So,

you know, it's not terribly uncommon to see a little selling going into the end of the year.

I think it's interesting for me more to think about going into 2025.

And there's still some uncertainty, right?

We have a new administration getting ready to take over here, I think, on January 20th.

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