BULL MARKETS: STARTING IN 2009 IS THE LONGEST FOR THE DJIA

An article on CNBC gives some great information on bull runs in the stock market.*  We are in the longest bull run for stocks on the DJIA and 2nd longest run on the SandP 500 (only the period of  October  11, 1990 to March 24, 2000 was longer) .

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The growth of the three main stock market indices is shown on a figure from a paper by Akane Otani.**    The rise in the indices contains the two terms as president of Barack Obama and continues under the presidency of Donald Trump.  After a dip in early 2016, the markets have surged.

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The longest Bull run for the SandP 500 comprised the one term as president of George H.W. Bush and the two terms of Bill Clinton.

* https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/08/the-bull-market-just-turned-9-years-old-heres-how-the-stock-surge-compares-with-past-runs.html
** http://ereader.wsj.net/ WSJ ,March 8, 2018 in Markets, p B12)