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Konomy Quiz 3.15.25: Presidents and stocks

  • Writer: Rick Newman
    Rick Newman
  • Mar 15
  • 1 min read

Updated: Apr 6

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.



 
 
 

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