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.”<br />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<br />and efforts to shore up the battered savings-and-loan industry.<br />Trump Bump’ Lifts Stocks, Giving President a Win for His First 100 Days -<br />By MICHAEL J. de la MERCEDAPRIL 28, 2017<br />In his first 100 days as president, Donald J. Trump may have found much of his agenda<br />stymied, like a health care overhaul and a hotly contested immigration order.<br />A version of this article appears in print on April 29, 2017, on Page B1 of the New York<br />edition with the headline: ‘Trump Bump’ Gives President a Win in His First 100 Days.<br />Much of the improvement in market indexes of late, Mr. Knutzen said, came from strong corporate earnings<br />in the first fiscal quarter of the year — which the new administration would have had little to do with.<br />By comparison, in Barack Obama’s first 100 days in the White House, the S.&P.<br />The percent change in their first 100 days.
