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Weekly Market Commentary - ​December 6, 2021

Submitted by Total Clarity Wealth Management, Inc. on December 14th, 2021

WILL OMICRON RUIN THE SANTA RALLY?

Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, LPL Financial

Jeff Buchbinder, CFA, Equity Strategist, LPL Financial

 

Historically, December has been a great month for stocks, but now we have the Omicron variant causing major volatility and uncertainty. Still, we remain optimistic that the new worries will subside over the coming weeks and stocks will finish 2021 on a solid note.
 

THE LATEST ON OMICRON

First things first, we are very excited to announce that tomorrow (Tuesday, December 7) we are set to release Outlook 2022: Passing the Baton. This will have all of our views on where we think the economy, stocks, and bonds are headed next year. Because the Outlook is coming out tomorrow, this week’s Weekly Market Commentary is shorter than normal, but hopefully just as impactful.

After 29 consecutive days without a single 1% move higher or lower for the S&P 500 Index, news of Omicron broke the Friday after Thanksgiving and as a result, five consecutive days saw at least a 1% move up or down. Clearly Omicron and the uncertainty it brought with it showed everyone that stocks can’t stay calm forever.

Although we do expect this volatility to continue, it very well could be a buying opportunity. We’ve been living with COVID-19 for more than 20 months now. We’ve seen several variants and managed to move forward, and we expect a similar playbook to work once again. Admittedly, we don’t know how effective current vaccines are against Omicron, or how transmissible it is, but we do know that the appetite for another nationwide shutdown is quite low and that these questions should be answered over the coming weeks. We remain optimistic that the medical community will quickly create booster shots against the new variant if needed, paving the way for this economic recovery to move forward early next year.

 

WILL SANTA STILL COME IN 2021?

December started off a little rocky, but we are still optimistic that the usual December bullish season will take place. For starters, the S&P 500 has gained 1.5% on average during the final month of the year, with only April and November better. But no month is more likely to be higher, with December up close to 75% of time.

As shown in Figure 1, it turns out that the majority of the gains tend to take place during the second half of the month, so we could see a continued choppy market until we have more clarity over Omicron, which would match the typical strong second half of December action.

Where things get interesting is after a negative November (like we saw this year), December does even better, up 2.7% on average and higher 19 out of 22 times (86.3%). What about if stocks are having a great year heading into December? You guessed it, the jolliest month of them all does better. We found there were 15 times the S&P 500 was up more than 20% for the year at the end of November and the month of December was up 11 of them with an average return of 1.7%; again, better than the average December return of 1.5%.

 

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