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Election-Year Market Boom: US equities won’t be winners this time around

Published on January 8, 2008

"Perhaps the single biggest domestic achievement that President Bush can point to is the reduction in the Federal deficit to just 1.2% of GDP in fiscal 2007. However, in the wake of recent Congressional elections the president has been cast adrift by a legislature that is not now dominated by his own Party." — Jeremy [...]

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U.S. Market Outlook: An election year loss

Published on January 8, 2008

"U.S. election years have, historically, seen healthy gains in the U.S. equity market. To some extent this can be put down to the market’s view that either the incumbent president or, where the president has served two terms, the ruling Party has an incentive to “buy” votes by loosening fiscal [...]

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