Concerned about stock market performance if Joe Biden wins the White House and the Democrats take a majority in the House and Senate?  History suggests maybe you shouldn’t be.

Dating back to 1951 there have been eighteen years in which the Democrats controlled the legislative branch.

  • in fifteen of those eighteen years (83.3% of the time) the S&P 500 provided a positive rate of return
  • the average rate of return was 13.2%
  • the median rate of return was 15.6%

Here’s the breakdown:

 

As always past performance is no guarantee of future results.