Neil Freiman

We'll wait for tomorrow for that.

And I hope you RSVP to my Festivus dinner.

It's a very quiet week on Wall Street with the stock exchanges closing early on the 24th and staying shut for Christmas.

Trading is expected to be thin until investors return from their Deer Park vacations.

And it doesn't feel like it, but the S&P 500 is up 16% this year.

That's three straight years of double digit, very healthy gains.

Federal government workers are also going to have a chill week.

Last week, President Trump issued an executive order naming Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas federal holidays, giving employees those days off this year.

That doesn't mean your company will necessarily do the same.

Private firms often follow the federal holiday calendar, but they aren't legally obligated to.

Overall, about 11% of employers granted staff the full week off between Christmas and New Year's in 2024.

And next year, I just looked it up, Christmas is on a Friday.

So that means people are going to be working like Monday through Wednesday, whereas this year it's more in the middle of the week.

Yeah, you want like a Wednesday or Thursday Christmas because that's kind of a two-week thing if your employer is feeling generous.

Christmas on a Friday is

You know, you're working the 20th and the 21st.

All right, the sports world this week will be anything but quiet with the NBA and NFL hosting games on Christmas.

The NBA used to own this holiday, but the NFL is encroaching on its turf with three matchups on December 25th.

All right, if sports isn't your thing and you're more of a Christmas and the movies kind of family, there is a good one hitting theaters.

Oscar contender Marty Supreme opens starring Timothee Chalamet as an aspiring ping pong player in the 1950s.