There are some election "postmortems" that will be appropriate in coming weeks. At least the election itself is now out of the way, removing one variable from the overall economic/market equation.
Following is a list of various market measures, with their pre- and post-election values. I anticipate it will be helpful to have these readily available in coming weeks, for a variety of purposes.
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Year-2004 Election -- Finan-
cial-Market Benchmark Values
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11/02 11/03 11/03 11/03
Close High Close Change
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Russell 2000 585 597 595 1.7%
NYSE Composite 6701 6803 6787 1.3%
Wilshire 5000 11075 NA 11205 1.2%
S&P 500 1131 1148 1143 1.1%
Value Line 366 371 370 1.1%
DJIA 10036 10216 10137 1.0%
NASDAQ 100 1495 1524 1504 0.6%
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90-Day T-Bill 1.95% 1.95% 0bp
02-Yr. T-Note 2.56% 2.58% 2bp
05-Yr. T-Note 3.31% 3.32% 1bp
10-Yr. T-Note 4.04% 4.07% 3bp
30-Yr. T-Bond 4.82% 4.83% 1bp
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US $ Index 85.47 84.70 -0.9%
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CRB Index 281.06 282.54 0.5%
Crude Oil 49.63 50.88 2.5%
Unl. Gasoline 1.2899 1.3277 2.9%
Heating Oil 1.3915 1.4238 2.3%
Gold 420.00 424.60 1.1%
Silver 7.00 7.15 2.1%
XAU 99.49 101.88 2.4%
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