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If President Obama had been able to better address Americans' widespread and persistent economic anxiety, Donald Trump might not be celebrating his inauguration today. But anyone with enough money to invest in the stock market had plenty to celebrate under the outgoing president: Only Bill Clinton under whom stocks rose For more detail, see the chart below.

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The 44th President had the advantage of starting from a grim stock-market low point: When Obama took office, on Jan. But stocks touched bottom on March 6, , and have been trending upward ever since.

Stock performance under Obama also benefited, ironically enough, from the so-called Trump Bump. Overall, the market rose Historically, stocks have done better on average under Democratic presidents than Republican ones. On the other hand, a quick glance at the statistics suggests that investors should be excited to have a Republican president heading a Republican-led Congress: There's a catch, however: As Money's Taylor Tepper recently pointed out , there have only been six years since World War II where Washington had unified Republican government.

Four-and-a-half of those years occurred under George W. Bush, when stocks had a nice run Officials Say Russian Hackers Targeted 21 States During the Presidential Election.

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