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# 11/5/24 close (election day): 5783
# 1/17/25 close (Last close b4 Inauguration Day): 5997
# Friday 2/21/25 close: 6013 (up 0.3% since b4 inauguration day and up 4.0% since the election)

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history/

So he's still "above water" on both measures. But one single very mild down day, of just 0.3% or more, will put him under water for his presidency. So we have that to look forward to.

It actually hit an all-time closing high two days ago, Wednesday, Feb 19: 6144
but dropped 2.1% since then.

I don't know what the Dow did, and I don't care, since I consider it a silly legacy measure of just 30 cherry-picked stocks, price-weighted (how silly!) It should have faded away along with the Big Band era, but habits are very hard to change.