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As the stock market recovered from the 2020 pandemic lows, valuations reached levels not seen since the dotcom bubble more than 20 years ago. The reopening economy and massive fiscal stimulus helped fuel one of the strongest starts to a bull market ever (a bull market that just turned two-years-old last week).

Low interest rates were a big part of the story. But just as low interest rates helped support stock valuations, that relationship can go in reverse as we’ve witnessed recently.

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Television, social media, and now websites like Reddit can create noise that can be distracting for investors, which can cause them to lose focus of their timeframe—which for many of us is a long time.

The Stock Market’s Cost of Admission Countless stock investors would prefer to exit their investment precisely at the top and put their money back into the market at the very bottom of a market correction.

2021 kicks off the first year of a new four-year presidential cycle. One of the most popular questions we’ve received lately is how have stocks performed historically during this political year.

How Stocks Perform in a President’s First Year The S&P 500 Index historically has gained 6.8% per year during the first year of the four-year presidential cycle, but stocks have done better when the president was re-elected than when someone new occupied the White House.

Looking ahead, earnings are likely to grow solidly in the first quarter 2021 and throughout the year.

Earnings Recession Is Likely Over This earnings season likely will be the last of the earnings recession.

Today we take a look back at how stocks performed under President Donald Trump.

How Stocks Did Under President Trump Today Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States.