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Presidential Market

January 1, 2009

Counting on Obama's inauguration to give stocks a lift? Historically, the market is weakest in the first (calendar) year of a presidential term, and strongest in the third year. Though the average market return for the first year of a term is 5.3%, the average for Republicans is 0.1% and for Democrats, 10.8%.


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