Rough chart depicting presidential eras and percentage gains for each, for perspective.
Keep in mind that:
- policies persist beyond presidential term completion, some of which may affect the market for decades to come.
- dates are on Jan 20th on the daily chart, then zoomed out to weekly
- growth is measured from the high to high, or high to low (in the one case of a downtrend), and starting from the same ending point for each president
- allow for a margin of error on where start and end dates were snapped when measuring growth due to zooming out to weekly and not getting perfect accuracy on Jan 20th start dates.
- shorter term length during previous presidency doesn't allow as much time for growth as 8 year presidents had