A Year Before Election Day: What Matters Most

“Every presidential election season has unique traits and trends, but history may provide useful guidance for investors during the campaign’s final year. Economic conditions can be core to the election outcome, for example—and equity markets have demonstrated some clear patterns in presidential election years. Other important lessons are that polling results and candidate rhetoric early on do not necessarily predict either a party’s presidential nominee or the post-convention promises. In this report, we present the historical evidence on these tendencies, and sketch six key issues and their potential market implications.” Click here for full report.

Source: Wells Fargo Investment Institute