The stock market (all markets) are affected by everything including opinions of what may happen x months out. The market is continually affected by new information (or by re-interpreting existing information which creates new information). New information comes from the future. Therefore the stock market is affected by the uncertainty of future information. It is a mistake to try and reduce market movements to simple cause-effect relationships.


>The stock market is typically affected by investors looking 8-9 months out.
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>>Don't forget that the day after the election is when last batch of bad economic news was released. The timing was interesting, but the news would have come out regardless of who won
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>>>I think that downward trend was in place a little before Obamas election . But whatever floats your boat as they say.
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>>>Do you actually watch the stock market? The day before the election and on the day of the election, the DOW was up over 300 points each day. I am not talking about the inital crash when the market dropped from 11,000.