The year before elections is almost always the best year for stocks. Investors notes : Pre-election years takes the top spot as the best-performing year for stocks. UBS reports : Ahead of US Presidential Elections (Pre-Election Year or Year 3 and Election Year or Year 4) politicians often promote an accommodating and pro-business agenda so that the economy is strong, stock market is bullish, and voters are upbeat heading to the polls. The Stock Trader’s Almanac notes (via a press release by publisher Wiley): Pre-election years are notoriously the best year of the four-year cycle and fifth years of decades are the strongest, so 2015 has some solid history behind it,” says the Almanac’s Editor-in-chief Jeffrey A. Hirsch. “The Dow has not had a loss in a pre-election year since 1939. But in 2015, the Dow closed down for the year … 2.2% into the red.
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