NEW YORK: Skeptical kids can doubt whether Santa Claus exists. But for stock-market statisticians, there’s not much debate: The year-end lift known as the Santa Claus rally is no myth.

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Keeping the Midas touchGulfNewsIn general, the cash poured into gold ETFs is seen as “sticky money” that should prove resilient in a bear market for gold. The gold ETFs’ growth has been …
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Stocks’ ‘Nightmare’ DecadeWall Street JournalEven the 1970s, in which a bear market was coupled with inflation, wasn’t as bad as the most recent period. The 1970s saw the S&P 500 lose 1.4% after …

On Bernanke’s Understanding of Central Banking – Let’s Consider the FactsSeeking Alpha (blog)The Fed, coming out of a bubble crash, and likely knowing that we are in a bear market rally, wants to go slow. …

Where will stocks go in 2010?Asbury Park PressTice, who believes stocks are still in a secular, or long-term, bear market, is calling for a drop of 40 percent for stocks. “It is time for individual …