Like many things about this year's presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trumpthe stock market's behavior even looks to be breaking with the norm. Typically in the week before a presidential election, there's a stock market rally. Those rallies have resulted in an average gain of 1. The second time was the 1. Bush beat Michael Dukakis. The best gain in that period was the 6.

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Some analysts say, however, there could be a relief rally after Election Day — a post-election bounce. But that conventional wisdom does not ring true, according to the market performance for the first week following the last 22 presidential elections. Going back to Jimmy Carter's election, seven of the first weeks post-election were negative, with an average 2 percent decline, meaning any rally was short-lived.

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The worst performance was when the market fell Bush defeated John Kerry in Hickey said it's difficult to handicap the market post-election. Hickey said a lot of investors are on the sidelines or in cash, awaiting the outcome. History shows the opposite. If we stay in this funk until Tuesday, you could see the market get a little bit of a lift no matter who wins," said Hickey.

He said most times, the winner is clear before the election.

Is it going to be a really close election, where we have a rehash of ? Or is it going to be a clear-cut winner, and if it's a clear-cut winner, who is it going to be? It's hard to extrapolate," Hickey said.

The market has long anticipated a win by Clinton, but the stock market has sold off in the last several days as Trump has anushka forex gurgaon in the polls. Since the market is already selling off, if Trump wins, a sell-off could be more shallow than it might have been otherwise, analysts say.

The market's view is that Clinton's positions are known, but that Trump is not well-known. He's volatile and brings more uncertainty. The election in " was close, and the market went down in the week after because it was contested," he said.

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