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Not since before World War II has the Dow Jones Industrial Average seen a rise as powerful as what we saw in Donald Trump’s first year.

Stocks only fall in about 50 percent of government shutdowns and the average decline is less than one percent.

Markets are off to a roaring start for the year, climbing the wall of worry about frothy valuations to even higher levels.

Here are seven amazing facts about Trump’s booming economy that include record low unemployment, soaring optimism, and stock market records.

U.S. stocks rose higher on Black Friday as signs of confident consumers and a strong holiday shopping season bolstered hopes for retail sales.

The stock market is the closest thing America has to an instant gauge on economic news. Even if it is an often fickle judge, the stock market bears watching when economically relevant news breaks.

The wise men all said the market would crash and the economy tank if Trump won the election. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

As America approaches the one-year anniversary of the election of Donald Trump, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is on target to book its best annual performance under a first-term president when measured from Election Day.

Brian Kennedy allegedly stole Amazon’s quarterly results and gave them to his day trading friend who had ambitions of starting a hedge fund.

The stock market is not going to crash if Gary Cohn abandons his White House post.

Shares of many of the companies whose CEOs rebelled against Trump saw there biggest declines in months.

As President Trump’s administration enters the last half of its first year, U.S. corporations are experiencing their best earnings in 13 years, a report finds.

The former Fed official understands why stock prices are rising at a time when Americans voted to Make America Great Again.

Opposition party media playbook: ignore the good news, accentuate chaos.

President Donald Trump told West Virginians on Thursday that even though the stock market is hitting record highs, he will continue to fight for people who are not in the workforce and may not be benefiting from the booming stock market.

President Donald Trump declared that “America is on the verge of a golden age for small business” to a room full of entrepreneurs and legislators at the White House on Tuesday, using a 16-year low in unemployment, 2.6 percent GDP, and a record stock market high as evidence.

Americans see good things ahead for wages, stocks, home prices, according to a CNBC survey.

Best Buy soars 21%.

How does President Donald Trump’s presidency stack up against his predecessor 100 days in? Obviously, that’s a highly subjective question, since an observer who disagrees strongly with Trump’s policy agenda will find little reason to applaud his “successes,” and likewise with critics of Obama. We can compare a few metrics between the two presidencies, however.

Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Job Creators Network and retired co-founder of The Home Depot, pens an op-ed titled “Trump’s Results” stating that President Donald Trump has set an optimistic tone for the business world.

Despite the scary headlines about the “longest losing streak,” it’s the markets resilience that is truly remarkable. Many analysts and talkative investor-types had insisted the market would view the Obamacare replacement bill as a test of the Trump administration’s ability to enact its agenda. So when the bill seemed to be in trouble last week and, especially, when it went down in flames on Friday, stocks were widely expected sell off steeply. But that just keeps not happening.

Waking to the fact that the death of RyanCare won’t kill tax cuts or regulatory reforms, cooler heads are prevailing on Wall Street.

Many of the wizards of Wall Street predicted stocks would slump if Donald Trump won the presidency. Now they’re worried that stocks could be vulnerable if President Trump’s agenda stalls in Washington, D.C.

Stocks are up in The Netherlands. It looks like another nationalist market rally.

Banks and other financial companies led U.S. stocks lower in late-afternoon trading Thursday as investors sized up the latest batch of company news and earnings reports.

John Carney, Breitbart News finance and economics editor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Dow’s hitting 21,000 for the first time after President Trump’s address to Congress.

President Donald Trump celebrated the remarkable growth of the stock market since he was elected, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 21,000 after his joint speech to congress.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke through 20,000 points for the first time at the start of trading Wednesday morning, reaching a new milestone and continuing an extraordinary run that began on the morning after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

The Wall Street Journal reports Thursday that billionaire left-wing financier George Soros lost nearly $1 billion as a result of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the November 2016 presidential election.

Kellogg’s shares (NYSE: K) tumbled over 2% on Wednesday, following accusations that the company benefits from child labor. The stock continued to fall after the launch of Breitbart News’ “#DumpKelloggs” campaign.

CNN Money made no bones about crediting the incredible post-election surge in the stock market to a “Trump rally,” as Wall Street hit the rare “superfecta”: all four major indexes closing at record highs on the same day.

“U.S. stocks opened higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial average hitting a record high, as Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the U.S. presidential election continued to lift the market,” Reuters reported on Monday morning. The Dow opened at 18,914.78.

Peter Morici, University of Maryland business professor and former director of economics for the U.S. International Trade Commission, appeared on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his weekend column for the New York Post, “Trump Can Get Us the China Deal We Deserve.”

So much for the “panic” that was supposed to engulf the stock market after Donald Trump’s surprising victory in the 2016 presidential race. On Wednesday, just a few hours after Hillary Clinton finally offered her public concession, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with an all-time high.

Major U.S. stock indexes moved higher in afternoon trading Wednesday as Wall Street sized up the implications of Donald Trump’s stunning presidential election victory.

The stock market suffered its seventh consecutive daily loss on November 2, just one day less than the eight-day consecutive loss that launched the Financial Crisis in October 2008.