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swag

(26,488 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:29 PM Jan 2018

1st year US Stock Market returns under Obama & Trump compared. Trump lags badly.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/01/update-for-fun-stock-market-as.html

"At this point, the S&P500 is up 23.2% under Mr. Trump compared to up 41.1% under Mr. Obama for the same number of market days."

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1st year US Stock Market returns under Obama & Trump compared. Trump lags badly. (Original Post) swag Jan 2018 OP

Fantastic. Thanks for posting. NT enough Jan 2018 #1

My pleasure. swag Jan 2018 #2

enough

(13,262 posts)

1. Fantastic. Thanks for posting. NT

Reply to swag (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:33 PM

Jan 2018

swag

(26,488 posts)

2. My pleasure.

Reply to enough (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:02 PM

Jan 2018

And not that the president has much to do with stock market performance, especially during the first year in office, but it gets tiresome hearing Trump and his minions go on about a stock market performance that was inferior to Obama's.

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