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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There will be fewer designer handbags and high heels under Christmas trees this year. Spending on personal luxury goods is set to fall by 2% in 2024, according to Bain, a consultancy.

Sensex is on track to end December marginally in the red, extending last year’s weak finish and marking the sixth time in close to a decade that the benchmark index has closed the holiday month with losses.A Mint analysis shows the index headed for a modest decline of about 0.2% in December, following a 2% fall in December 2024. The only worse December in recent years was 2022, when the Sensex dropped almost 4%.

What is Santa’s secret? How did Santa become one of the world’s most powerful brands? Not the cookies. Not the sleigh. Nor the flying reindeer with suspiciously high fuel efficiency.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A shopper tries on earmuffs at a Goodwill store. This year, some of Santa’s gifts have been given before.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: In early December, fast-food chain McDonald’s released a Christmas Special advertisement, just like many brands do during this time of the year. While most brands seek to evoke warm, festive cheer among their target customers, the Big Mac maker made an unconventional choice.

Joe Biden will be staying a little distant from the political scene in Washington DC as he flew directly to a popular Californian location right after the inauguration ceremony of his successor, Donald Trump.

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island held for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ARLINGTON, Va.—-When Marciana Cabrera misses a home-cooked meal from her native Guatemala, she places an order for food delivery—from Guatemala. “Four, probably five times a year," says the 20-year resident of this Washington, D.C., suburb.

Elon Musk acknowledges using contentious weight-loss medication. 'Make America Healthy Again' won't be aided by drugs like Ozempic, asserted Kennedy.

Christmas gifting season, driven by the convenience of quick commerce, delivered a significant business boost for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands. Sales across categories such as personal care, desserts and other eatables, as well as activewear rose 20-30% from last year.

Days after Azerbaijan Airlines crash, Russia allegedly released a controversial Christmas propaganda video. In the purported Russian video shared by Ukraine's Centre for Countering Disinformation appears to showcase a bizarre piece of Russian propaganda, where a sleigh driven by a NATO-branded Santa Claus is shot down above Moscow.

Elon Musk discloses that he is using Mounjaro to lose weight while looking slim in a festive Ozempic Santa post. Elon Musk has previously advocated for similar weight-loss medications as a way to combat America's obesity crisis, disclosed on Wednesday that he takes Mounjaro.

Jacqueline Fernandez. This letter, which has quickly gone viral on social media, comes as part of a series of personal messages Sukesh has written to Jacqueline during his time in custody.

Christmas in a unique way this year, which is by streaming holiday films.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore learned this month that their extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) just got a little longer. When the astronauts stranded at the space station were pictured wearing Santa hats next to a tiny Christmas tree this week, netizens had multiple questions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Santa's sleigh seems to have taken a detour this year, leaving behind a subdued holiday market instead of presents. After falling 1.7% so far, December seems poised to clock the second-worst returns in a decade, next only to the near-4% fall in December 2022.

NASA astronauts. Even though they are thousands of miles from Earth, the NASA astronauts who are stuck are feeling joyous this Christmas.

Santa Claus rally on Dalal Street as Nifty is down nearly 10% or 2,500 points from its September 27 peak of 26,277. In the last 10 years, the stock market has been gifted with a Santa rally 90% of the time and market insiders say this time could be no different. Santa Claus rally, typically associated with an upsurge in stock prices in the last five trading days of December and the first two days of January, is nothing but a seasonal phenomena noticed not just on Wall Street but also on Dalal Street.

«So, net-net, I think, okay, there is some back and forth going on, we had the surprise from the Fed chair, but overall, the tailwind is still there coming into 2025,» says Santosh Rao, Manhattan Venture Partners. Where is the Santa? Santa is supposed to come year end, Santa rally is missing. Santosh Rao: We still have a week left, so I am sure we will get a little bit more. The whole thing is, at a broader picture, we will have the benefit of doubt, we will have the Trump rally. We are still not sure if it was pulled forward, I do not think so. The market is still good. The fundamentals are still good. Yes, inflation is sticky, there is fear of the budget deficits, there is fear of tariffs and lower taxes. All this trifecta of events are still weighing on the long-term bonds. So, the bond market, the yields are going up there.

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