How Stocks Have Performed For US Presidents

• Barack Obama, first term (2009-2013): 71.71%
• George W. Bush, first term (2001-2005): -1.01%
• George W. Bush, second term (2005-2009): -24.09% (entire presidency: -24.85%)
• Bill Clinton, first term (1993-1997): 111%
• Bill Clinton, second term (1997-2001): 54.70% (entire presidency: 226.58%)
• George H.W. Bush (one term, 1989-1993): 45.03%
• Ronald Reagan, first term (1981-1985): 29.10%
• Ronald Reagan, second term (1985-1989): 77.2% (entire presidency: 135.13%)
• Jimmy Carter (one term, 1977-1981): -0.87%
• Gerald Ford (one term, 1974-1977): 23.38%
• Richard Nixon, first term (1969-1973): 10.19%
• Richard Nixon, second term (1973-1974): -23.71% (entire presidency: -16.53%)
• Lyndon Johnson, first term (1963-1965): 25.84%
• Lyndon Johnson, second term (1965-1969): 4.01% (entire presidency: 30.89%)
• John Kennedy (one term, 1961-1963): 12.16%
• Dwight Eisenhower, first term (1953-1957): 65.78%
• Dwight Eisenhower, second term (1957-1961): 33.50% (entire presidency: 120.27%)
• Harry Truman, first term (1945-1949): 14.48%
• Harry Truman, second term (1949-1953): 58.74% (entire presidency: 81.73%)
• Franklin Roosevelt, first term (1933-1937): 245.39%
• Franklin Roosevelt, second term (1937-1941): -30.50%
• Franklin Roosevelt, third term (1941-1945): 18.16%
• Franklin Roosevelt, fourth term (1945-1945): 3.78% (entire presidency: 194.35%)
• Herbert Hoover (one term, 1929-1933): -82.85%
• Calvin Coolidge, first term (1923-1925): 39.75%
• Calvin Coolidge, second term (1925-1929): 154.63% (entire presidency: 255.85%)
• Warren Harding (one term, 1921-1923): 17.43%
• Woodrow Wilson, first term (1913-1917): 16.01%
• Woodrow Wilson, second term (1917-1921): -20.97% (entire presidency: -6.94%)
• Theodore Roosevelt, first term (1901-1905): 13.22%
• Theodore Roosevelt, second term (1905-1909): 7.42% (entire presidency: 21.62%)
• William McKinley, first term (1897-1901): 63.47%
• William McKinley, second term (1901-1901): -0.49% (entire presidency: 62.68%)

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