Updated at: 11/07/2012 2:05 PM Performance of the Dow Jones industrial average by party controlling the White House, listed with presidents in office, since 1900: _ 1901-1912 (Republican _ McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft): Up 48.3 percent. _ 1913-1920 (Democratic _ Wilson): Up 29.2 percent. _ 1921-1932 (Republican _ Harding, Coolidge, Hoover): Down 24.5 percent. _ 1933-1952 (Democratic _ F. Roosevelt, Truman): Up 318.4 percent. _ 1953-1960 (Republican _ Eisenhower): Up 121.2 percent. _ 1961-1968 (Democratic _ Kennedy, Johnson): Up 58.3 percent. _ 1969-1976 (Republican _ Nixon, Ford): Up 2.1 percent. _ 1977-1980 (Democratic _ Carter): Down 3 percent. _ 1981-1992 (Republican _ Reagan, G.H.W. Bush): Up 247 percent. _ 1993-2000 (Democratic _ Clinton): Up 236.7 percent. _ 2001-2008 (Republican _ G.W. Bush): Down 12.1 percent. _ 2009-2012 (Democratic _ Obama): Up 36.2 percent through Tuesday. ___ Source: Stock Trader’s Almanac.
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