Sentences with phrase «average during election years»

Historically, stocks have performed above average during election years, but second - term election years have been the weakest going back to 1928, falling an average 4 percent.

Not exact matches

In second - term election years, then, equities dipped an average 4 percent, compared to an average increase of 7 percent during all election years.

Analysts at investment research platform Seeking Alpha found that of all the months of the year, October has historically experienced the most 1 - percent swings in either direction for the S&P 500 index — and during election years, stocks have finished the month lower, on average.

Since 1962, the average peak - to - trough S&P 500 Index decline during these years was 19 %, although the past three midterm election years averaged closer to a 10 % drop (the correction in February 2018 was approximately 10 %).

This should be worrying for Labour supporters, because as well as losing large amounts of support after every election, during their previous stints in government the Conservatives have also won back large amounts of support in the two years prior to an election with an average gain of 18.5 % against Labour.