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Particularly in hindsight, the Santa Claus rally of 2006 was something to write home about, bookending Christmas itself with heaping sleighloads of market cheer delivered to Wall Street early, often and with uncommon generosity. All told, the fourth quarter's merriment dispensed about half the year's gains to the three main U.S. stock indexes.