Politics and Investing: Equities are Non-Partisan

It would be safe to say that this election season intensified emotions and left many investors uncertain of how the results could impact equity markets and their investments.

However, savvy investors have learned that equity markets have historically cared more about an election being over than they have about who won. While you may be disappointed that the person you voted for did not win, stock prices are nonpartisan. They are more commonly tied to earnings and corporations' health than politics. What equity markets do not like is uncertainty, and the period prior to an election is filled with just that, especially during this most recent, particularly tense election campaign. Click here to read more