The U.S. stock market had a banner year, but the holiday season has been far from festive. The S&P 500 logged 57 record highs ...

Traders were hoping to wrap up the year in a nice bow, watching for the so-called Santa Claus rally or the tendency of the market to rise in the last five trading days of the year through the ...

Santa isn’t rocking with you this year. Enjoy your coal! You’re not going to let your children’s father see them on Christmas. Yet he pays child support, buys gifts, and is consistently ...

If Santa was already shimmying down the chimney, coal was a readily available ... It's dark, dirty and unglamorous — everything the magic of Christmas is not. Its association with hard labor ...

Read the first story about labor in the coal mines ... who co-directs Christmas Town with Mark Montoya, spent hours cooking a “Breakfast with Santa” and back-to-back chili dinners in the ...