Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House: BGOV Barometer

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-22/stocks-return-more-with-dem-in-white-house-bgov-barometer.html

While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.

The BGOV Barometer shows that, over the five decades since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, $1,000 invested in a hypothetical fund that tracks the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) only when Democrats are in the White House would have been worth $10,920 at the close of trading yesterday.

That’s more than nine times the dollar return an investor would have realized from following a similar strategy during Republican administrations. A $1,000 stake invested in a fund that followed the S&P 500 under Republican presidents, starting with Richard Nixon, would have grown to $2,087 on the day George W. Bush left office.

“The market does tend to do better under Democrats than under Republicans,” Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at S&P Equity Research in New York, said in a telephone interview. “Is it because Republicans mishandled the economy, or inherited a weak economy? I’ll leave that to others.”

[DuaneBidoux]

1. Hi, I'm replying to this just so that you have one--it deserves it.

I post stuff like this all the time--stuff that if Dems would memorize it and use it would be huge amunition but for some reason these kinds of posts so rarely get real traffic and discussion.

I posted something showing that Jan was the best month on record for the S&P since Clinton and got nothing. It seems like most of the stuff that gets attention is really the low life kind of stuff.

[randome]

2. I would love to see Obama on national TV...

...with a chart and a laser pointer showing the bare facts to the American people about this.

[DuaneBidoux]

3. I'm kinda' hoping he pulls out some charts from under his podium during the debates.

[cbdo2007]

4. Someone should ask Romney or Santorum and see what they say about this??

they can't deny it....yet if they agree that it's true, it's kind of like a smoking gun against their viewpoint.