Keep an eye on the stock market from August 1 through October 31. Those critical three months have been astonishingly accurate at predicting the next president, says Sam Stovall, a stock market expert at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Stovall looked at the data for every presidential election going back to 1944 (FDR v. Dewey). The stock market is coming into the "presidential predictor stretch" near all-time highs. The only times that the stock market predictor didn't work were in years where a strong third party candidate was involved (e.g.

Source: CNN July 31, 2016 13:52 UTC