Presidential election year to pay off for investors?

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: January 13, 2008| Author: Rachel Beck The Associated Press | Copyright information

NEW YORK - Presidential elections typically are prosperous times for investors. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has risen in the final seven months of 13 of the last 14 presidential election years, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.

Those are odds anyone in Vegas would welcome, but this year's uncharted credit mess makes a repeat performance far from guaranteed.

For much of the last half century, stocks have typically bottomed two years into a presidential term, then ...

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