My husband and I noticed a pattern between Obama and the stock market. I looked it up just to see if our memories were holding true. I found this to be interesting. I thought others might also.

Day after Election (remember, the market was closed by the time results were released on the 4th):
Stock Market Closing Prices - 11/05/08
Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close - 9139 Down 486

Obama Reveals stimulus plans
Stock Market Closing Prices - 12/09/08
Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close - 8691.33 Down 242.85


Clean energy speech jan. 8th 2009
Stock Market Closing Prices - 1/08/09
Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close - 8742.62 Down 27.08


Inauguration Jan 20th 2009
Stock Market Closing Prices - 1/20/09
Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close - 7949.09 Down 332.13


Obama signs pay equity law
Stock Market Closing Prices - 1/29/09
Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close - 8148.69 Down 226.76


Obama signs Schip
Stock Market Closing Prices - 2/4/09
Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close - 7956.66 Down 121.70


Last night Obama held a press conference
as of 2:31 today.....
Dow Jones Industrial Average
7,886.17 -384.70 / -4.65%
Feb 10 2:31pm ET â€*

http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/


There is a definite pattern here.