It’s State of the Union time!
This is a night when one side nauseously stands up and applauds over and over … and over again. The other side just sits on their hands. It’s also a night when the president doesn’t exactly tell the whole truth, which is expected of most politicians nowadays.
As news junkies, the fake news media, average Americans watch the spectacle at primetime, there is another segment of society that will pay close attention: the stock market.
Believe it or not, the stock market does react to the SOTU each year.
In which direction do stock indexes head? The Wall Street Journal‘s Market Data Group examined the numbers dating back to 1961, and this is how the Dow Jones Industrial Averages (DJIA) has fared since then:
John F. Kennedy
- 1961: -0.38 percent
- 1962: 0.15 percent
- 1963: -0.06 percent
Lyndon Baines Johnson
- 1964: 0.27 percent
- 1965: 0.7 percent
- 1966: 0.18 percent
- 1967: 1.03 percent
- 1968: -0.11 percent
- 1969: 0.37 percent
Richard Nixon
- 1970: -1.34 percent
- 1971: 0.5 percent
- 1972: -0.31 percent
- 1973: 0.25 percent
- 1974: -0.79 percent
Gerald Ford
- 1975: 0.36 percent
- 1976: 0.65 percent
- 1977: 0.82 percent
Jimmy Carter
- 1978: -0.22 percent
- 1979: 0.6 percent
- 1980: -0.75 percent
- 1981: -0.24 percent
Ronald Reagan
- 1981: -1.45 percent
- 1982: 0.14 percent
- 1983: -0.39 percent
- 1984: -0.18 percent
- 1985: 0.74 percent
- 1986: -0.01 percent
- 1987: 0.6 percent
- 1988: -1.33 percent
George H.W. Bush
- 1989: -1.59 percent
- 1990: -0.17 percent
- 1991: 1.9 percent
- 1992: -1.44 percent
Bill Clinton
- 1993: -0.3 percent
- 1994: 0.33 percent
- 1995: 0.23 percent
- 1996: 0.97 percent
- 1997: -1.27 percent
- 1998: 1.28 percent
- 1999: -0.21 percent
- 2000: -2.62 percent
George W. Bush
- 2001: -1.33 percent
- 2002: 1.5 percent
- 2003: 0.27 percent
- 2004: 0.9 percent
- 2005: -0.03 percent
- 2006: 0.78 percent
- 2007: 0.7 percent
- 2008: 0.78 percent
Barack Obama
- 2009: -1.09 percent
- 2010: -1.13 percent
- 2011: 0.07 percent
- 2012: 0.64 percent
- 2013: -0.26 percent
- 2014: -1.19 percent
- 2015: 0.22 percent
- 2016: -2.21 percent
Donald Trump
- 2017: 1.46 percent
- 2018: 0.28 percent
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