Largest Increase
Calvin Coolidge
+255.9%
Presidential Markets
U.S. presidents against markets and macro.
Compare presidential terms across stock indexes, inflation-adjusted oil, the job market, and interest rates.
Selected series: Dow Jones
Coverage starts: 1896-05-26
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Relative term change
Compare how the selected series moved after each inauguration, using elapsed years in office.
Joe Biden +39.4%
Donald Trump II +3.5%
Lines are aligned by years since inauguration. Longer presidencies extend farther across the x-axis, and ongoing terms only extend through the years completed so far.
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Dow Jones
Blue-chip barometer tracking 30 heavyweight U.S. companies.
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48,368.45
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Delayed • Apr 16, 2026
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Average Change
+55.7%
Across presidents with coverage in the selected series.
Largest Decrease
Herbert Hoover
-82.9%
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Presidential Scoreboard
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Calvin Coolidge 30th President | Republican | 8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 88.2 | 313.9 | +255.9% | +25.5% |
Bill Clinton 42nd President | Democratic | 1/20/1993 - 1/20/2001 | 3,242 | 10,587.6 | +226.6% | +15.9% |
Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President | Democratic | 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 62.1 | 158.5 | +155.2% | +8.1% |
Barack Obama 44th President | Democratic | 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017 | 7,949.09 | 19,827.25 | +149.4% | +12.1% |
Ronald Reagan 40th President | Republican | 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 | 950.7 | 2,235.4 | +135.1% | +11.3% |
Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President | Republican | 1/20/1953 - 1/20/1961 | 288 | 634.4 | +120.3% | +10.4% |
Harry S. Truman 33rd President | Democratic | 4/12/1945 - 1/20/1953 | 158.5 | 288 | +81.7% | +8.0% |
William McKinley 25th President | Republican | 3/4/1897 - 9/14/1901 | 29.94 | 48.71 | +62.7% | +11.3% |
Donald Trump I 45th President | Republican | 1/20/2017 - 1/20/2021 | 19,827.25 | 31,188.38 | +57.3% | +12.0% |
George H. W. Bush 41st President | Republican | 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993 | 2,235.4 | 3,242 | +45.0% | +9.7% |
Joe Biden 46th President | Democratic | 1/20/2021 - 1/20/2025 | 31,188.38 | 43,487.83 | +39.4% | +8.7% |
Lyndon B. Johnson 36th President | Democratic | 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 | 711.5 | 931.3 | +30.9% | +5.3% |
Woodrow Wilson 28th President | Democratic | 3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 58.45 | 75.11 | +28.5% | +3.2% |
Gerald Ford 38th President | Republican | 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977 | 777.3 | 959 | +23.4% | +8.9% |
Warren G. Harding 29th President | Republican | 3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 75.11 | 88.2 | +17.4% | +6.9% |
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President | Republican | 9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | 50.7 | 59.24 | +16.8% | +2.1% |
John F. Kennedy 35th President | Democratic | 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 | 634.4 | 711.5 | +12.2% | +4.1% |
Donald Trump II 47th President | Republican | 1/20/2025 - N/A | 44,025.81 | 45,577.47 | +3.5% | +3.0% |
Grover Cleveland II 24th President | Democratic | 3/4/1893 - 3/4/1897 | 29.39 | 29.94 | +1.9% | +2.4% |
Jimmy Carter 39th President | Democratic | 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981 | 959 | 950.7 | -0.9% | -0.2% |
William H. Taft 27th President | Republican | 3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 59.24 | 58.45 | -1.3% | -0.3% |
Richard Nixon 37th President | Republican | 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974 | 931.3 | 777.3 | -16.5% | -3.2% |
George W. Bush 43rd President | Republican | 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009 | 10,578.2 | 7,949.09 | -24.9% | -3.5% |
Herbert Hoover 31st President | Republican | 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 313.9 | 53.8 | -82.9% | -35.7% |