Good Christmas Eve morning and welcome to opening bid. I'm Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sazi. What.You thought I would be off today. If you did, I guess you have been following my career for the past 20 years. And that's naughty.Santa says I suggest you change it next year and follow every single thing that I'm doing and the Yahoo Finance team. I'm coming in hot with five things that have surprised me in markets this year. They are in absolutely no order of importance.I am surprised Nvidia stock is ...

This week, investors and little kids are wondering the same thing: Is Santa Claus really coming? The “Santa Claus rally” is a technical indicator coined by Yale Hirsch in 1972, five years after he created the first edition of the Stock Trader’s Almanac. It covers the last five trading days of the year and the first two of the new year. Hirsch’s line: “If Santa Claus should fail to call, bears may come to Broad and Wall.” (That’s the intersection in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is lo ...