Political uncertainty often seems to have weighed on the performance of US equities, both in absolute terms and relative to Treasuries, before a presidential election. But another lesson from history is that the macroeconomic backdrop frequently had the bigger influence around elections. That feeds into our view that US equities will outperform Treasuries in the next few years regardless of who wins in November.
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