Gold in Presidential Transition Years
By GCRU Gold News on Saturday, January 14 2017, 01:46 - Permalink
Looking at the data, gold achieved above average returns during those calendar years, +14.8% in Presidential transition years vs. an overall average of +8.4%. Perhaps equally important is that those have been years when the S&P 500 greatly underperformed its average over that same time period, -0.9% in Presidential transition years vs an overall average of +9.0%.
The S&P 500 on average was negative for those seven calendar years of Presidential transition. The average return in Presidential transition years is +14.8% for gold and -0.9% for the S&P 500.