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Market returns - after POTUS' first 444 days

Dow Jones Industrial Average return, if you invested in that basket of stocks, for a president's first 444 days (ranked since 1900,) per Bloomberg:

FDR : 70.4%
Reagan: 41.4%
Teddy Roosevelt: 37.4%
Obama: 32.5%
Bill Clinton: 32.2%
George H.W. Bush: 21.4%
Trump: 20.7%

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  • Any of those percentages is totally acceptable by me.
  • I used the more common SPY reference, versus the DJIA-30 and found the following for total return of SPY for these time frames:

    ---Jan. 20, 2017 to date, +17.2%
    ---Nov. 9, 2016 to date, +24.9%

    Peak = Nov. 9, 2016 through Jan. 26, 2018 at +37.3%
  • edited April 2018
    That is because they are cherry picked dates to give the anti trumpers a good feeling in their pants.
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  • edited April 2018
    It was written about and posted here so some like to think it does. And dates were picked to make somebody look better, and somebody look worse. I doubt this article would have been put out a month ago, nor posted on here.
  • Regarding dates, are not November 9th, 2016 and January 20th, 2017 respectively election day and inauguration day? What is fishy exactly or cherry-picked about those days in the context of what JoeD is discussing?
  • edited April 2018

    Regarding dates, are not November 9th, 2016 and January 20th, 2017 respectively election day and inauguration day? What is fishy exactly or cherry-picked about those days in the context of what JoeD is discussing?

    I posted this because Trump was so vocal last year in taking credit for stock market gains during his term. We all know better, and so should the POTUS.

    The honeymoon phase is over.
  • edited April 2018
    I'll type slow. The Bloomberg article takes into account from inauguration day on. It does not take into account the period from election day up to inauguration day. Why not include that period of time? If you included the dates from election day out about 515 days Obama and Trump would be pretty much the same. But the dates were selected to avoid that. Too funny, 444 days.
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