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Investors are betting big that President-elect Donald Trump will be good for the stock market once the takes office in a few weeks, in a post-election rally not seen since voters sent Dwight


Eisenhower to the White House in 1952. But, over those past six decades, stock market rallies in the early days of a change of administration aren't necessarily a great predictor of


investor returns over the full term of the incoming president. The stock market's jubilant response to Trump's election is being compared to the reaction to Ronald Reagan's


1980 defeat of Jimmy Carter. Both Trump and Reagan campaigned on a platform that promised sweeping deregulation, a prospect that investors assume will help companies boost profits.


Reagan's post-election rally fizzled within weeks, though, thanks to an aggressive series of interest rates hikes in late 1980 aimed at snuffing out double-digit inflation. Between


Election Day and the end of the year, short-term rates surged from 14 percent to just more than 20 percent. Stock investors were ultimately rewarded by the Reagan administration, which


followed through on its promises with major deregulation of industries such as telecommunications, among others. But those returns were sharply curtailed by the crash of 1987, which wiped


out more than 25 percent of the market's value in a week. The biggest market rally for a change in administration followed the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the assassination of


President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, which sparked a sharp sell-off. Within weeks, the market had recovered and continued to move higher. The Kennedy administration had gotten off to


a strong start. In the first 100 days after the inauguration in January, 1961, stocks jumped by 18.5 percent as the U.S. economy shook off the economic drag from a recession that ended a


month after Kennedy took office. President Barack Obama had the worst first 100 days of any post-war president, as the stock market and the economy were in the throes of the worst financial


crisis since the Great Depression. His predecessor, George W. Bush, also had a rocky start to his first term, after taking office in the middle of a major bear market sparked by the


unwinding of the 2000s tech bubble. That bubble helped the Clinton administration chalk up the best stock market performance of the last 11 presidents. During his eight years in office,


soared from 433 to 1,343, a gain of more than 200 percent. Obama turned in the second-best stock market performance, despite the financial crisis that was raging at the start of his


presidency. The market lost another 15 percent during his first two months in office before bottoming out. As of Thursday, the S&P 500 was up 181 percent since he was first inaugurated


in January 2009. The financial crisis left his predecessor with the worst stock market record of the last 11 presidents. The second Bush administration was briefly in positive territory


during the second term, but those gains were more than wiped out by the crisis of 2008. _Correction: This story was revised to delete an incorrect reference to the timing of airline


deregulation._


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