«Confidence levels generally
rise after a presidential election as the nation hopes for the best,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.
«Confidence levels generally
rise after a presidential election as the nation hopes for the best.
Not exact matches
Only three years ago, pundits and political scientists saw the 2008 American
presidential election as the beginning of a new era in Washington: the
rise of President Obama and a strong Democratic majority in both houses of Congress meant that
after eight years away from Pennsylvania Avenue, liberals could again implement political programmes and reforms free from Republican meddling.
Stocks
rose sharply today to end a nine - day slide
after the FBI said it found no new evidence to warrant charges against Clinton on the eve of the U.S.
presidential election.
Swastikas and other anti-Semitic markings have been found in the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City region in recent months, part of a national spate of hate incidents and crimes that
rose after the November
presidential election.
(FTSE Russell Index IDEA Blog: Mar 31, 2017)
After rising 14.2 % from the U.S.
presidential election through year end, domestic small cap stocks (Russell 2000 Index) came back to earth in the first quarter of 2017.
Long - term interest rates
rose by well over 50 basis points in the last months of 2016, as the yield on the benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds took off
after the victory of Donald Trump in the
presidential election.
Right
after the
Presidential election in November, the yield on 10 - year U.S. Treasury bonds
rose to a high of around 2.5 percent, up from roughly 1.75 percent in October.
Mortgage rates began to climb just
after the U.S.
presidential election, and they haven't stopped
rising yet (though they have slowed down).