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Political considerations, 5.22.24

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“The stock market has already chosen a winner in the 2024 presidential election”
by Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch
May 22, 2024

The author examined year-to-date changes of a number of financial metrics as of Election Days since 1896. Only one metric—the stock market—was significantly correlated with the incumbent party’s chance of winning.

Click on the above link to read this limited-access report.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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2 Comments

  1. I can’t access the full article but generally the last person I would listen to is some dude I’ve never heard of who’s involved in some financial service that would love to have my business.

    • When the pop-up on the article appears, click on the X to get rid of it and you should be able to read the full article. I shared this report, not because it is based on some finance guy’s opinion but because it derives its prognostication from data research and analysis.

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