{"id":2745,"date":"2014-12-31T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2014-12-31T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:20:04","slug":"the-december-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/the-december-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The December &#8220;Games&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has been estimated that about 90% of investment advisers were under performing their benchmarks going into the final month of the year. To make up lost ground, the smaller stocks would be easiest to push up in price. As evidenced in the following table, there was a perfect positive reverse correlation between December\u2019s returns thru December 30 and index size.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>December Games?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>Mkt Cap-Median<\/td>\n<td>Return<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>S&amp;P 500 (TR)<\/td>\n<td>$18.8B<\/td>\n<td>0.79%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>S&amp;P 500 (TR) Top 10<\/td>\n<td>$313B<\/td>\n<td>-0.57%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>S&amp;P 500(TR) Top 25<\/td>\n<td>$251B<\/td>\n<td>0.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Russell 1000<\/td>\n<td>$8.1B<\/td>\n<td>1.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Russell 2000<\/td>\n<td>$.7B<\/td>\n<td>3.56%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/the-december-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p><div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=The+December+%E2%80%9CGames%E2%80%9D+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.credittrends.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2745\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=The+December+%E2%80%9CGames%E2%80%9D+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.credittrends.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2745\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been estimated that about 90% of investment advisers were under performing their benchmarks going into the final month of the year. 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