- Rick Newman
- Mar 15
Two months into President Trump's second term, stocks are struggling. How did stocks perform during Trump's first term? Take the quiz and find out. Top score is 90. Go!
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Yahoo Finance (among other sites) has great tools for analyzing stock price history.
Little known-fact: Each of the 11 S&P industry sectors has a ticker symbol allowing you to research historical performance. Here's a cheat sheet:
Communications: ^SP500-50
Consumer discretionary: ^SP500-25
Consumer staples: ^SP500-30
Energy: ^SP500-10
Financials: ^SP500-40
Health care: ^HCX
Industrials: ^SP500-20
Information technology: ^SP500-45
Materials: ^SP500-15 Real estate: ^SP500-60
Utilities: ^SP500-55 Full S&P 500 index: ^SPX
The hemline index is probably a bogus theory. And yes, it's ironic that oil and gas firms performed way better under Biden than they did during Trump's first term.