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To: dara who wrote (209101)	1/9/2012 1:07:58 PM
From: ceejayt	Respond to of 313046

For one thing, the tail end of presidential election years tend to be pretty bullish for stocks most of the time, no matter which candidate eventually wins, says the Stock Trader's Almanac. The Standard & Poor's 500 has risen in the final seven months in 13 of the past 15 presidential election years since 1950, Stock Trader's Almanac says. What about the first five months of the year during a presidential election? That depends on which candidate ultimately wins, something investors wouldn't know until November. An historical analysis looking at past election years and how stock prices reacted, when the political party currently in power has won the election, which happened 16 out of the past 27 elections since 1901, the Dow Jones industrial average has risen by 1.5% on average in the first five months of the year before the election. Compare that to when the Party was ousted, and the Dow lost 4.6% on average in the first five months of the year before the election, the Stock Trader's Almanac says. usatoday.com