Wondering what stocks might do well the rest of this year as America awaits Donald Trump take office for a second time in January? A look at what happened the first time around offers some clues.
found the best performing S & P 500 stocks between Nov. 7, 2016 — the day before that year's presidential election — and the end of that calendar year. There are policy-related reasons for why many of these companies might see outsized gains in the run-up to Trump re-entering the White House next Jan. 20. Several earlier winners were part of sectors from banks to industrials to energy that were viewed as beneficiaries of Trump's position favoring deregulation.