In Mr. Trump’s first 100 days, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index has risen about 5 percent, in what supporters have called a “Trump bump.”
Only George Bush enjoyed a bigger stock market rise, with the index gaining 7.7 percent in his first 100 days as president in 1989 amid a 15-year low in unemployment
and efforts to shore up the battered savings-and-loan industry.
Trump Bump’ Lifts Stocks, Giving President a Win for His First 100 Days -
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCEDAPRIL 28, 2017
In his first 100 days as president, Donald J. Trump may have found much of his agenda
stymied, like a health care overhaul and a hotly contested immigration order.
A version of this article appears in print on April 29, 2017, on Page B1 of the New York
edition with the headline: ‘Trump Bump’ Gives President a Win in His First 100 Days.
Much of the improvement in market indexes of late, Mr. Knutzen said, came from strong corporate earnings
in the first fiscal quarter of the year — which the new administration would have had little to do with.
By comparison, in Barack Obama’s first 100 days in the White House, the S.&P.
The percent change in their first 100 days.