Is a Democrat or Republican President Better for Stocks? (You Might Be Surprised)

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But, first, we all know that the next U.S. presidential election is still more than a year away. Yet, as you've probably noticed, the political season is already in full swing. No doubt, it will get even more intense.

Even though several hotly contested issues are being debated, at least one factor that many investors care about can be expressed with this question: "Is a Democrat or Republican better for stocks?"

Here's a quote from Socionomic Causality in Politics:

...from 1857 to 2015, there was a 7.08% average annual rate of return in the stock market under presidents who were Democrats, while under Republicans the rate was 5.90%.

But let's dig deeper with this chart and additional commentary from the book:

From its high in 1929 to its low in 1932, the Dow fell a whopping 89%. The entire drop occurred within a single presidential term. No other presidential term in U.S. history contains anything close to such a move. When we omit the term encompassing 1929-32 from the analysis, the average annual rate of return under Republicans jumps to 7.68%, slightly higher than the 7.08% performance under Democrats.

Thus, all of the advantage in the market's average performance under the Democrats over a period of 159 years is due to a change lasting less than three years, all in a single term when a Republican happened to be president...

In sum, the market has had nearly the same average annual performance under both parties.

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