Post-Election Investment Scenarios

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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041022_6082_db035.


From oil prices to market cycles, S&P analysts look at the forces the next President -- be it Bush or Kerry -- must deal with

Wall Street has its theories on the political impact of a second term under George W. Bush vs. a John Kerry Administration. But would the policies of either candidate have that much effect on what might happen in the markets and the economy over the coming year or two? Likely not, said analysts and economists from credit-ratings agency Standard & Poor's at an Oct. 21 forum focused on the Presidential election
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1. Well, from an individual investor's perspective...

... I greatly fear a continuation of Bush's ineffective policies and lack of direction. The election of John Kerry promises change which -- contrary to conventional belief -- is not a negative for Wall Street, not when the current administration is marked by recklessness, short-sightedness and a stubborn inability to recognize that its startegy is not working.