Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House: BGOV Barometer
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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 only when Democrats are in the White House would have been worth $10,920 at the close of trading yesterday.