[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-aggregator-these-10-stocks-were-sandp-5002510192e459-2cc8-7ed6-8451-92f3e5ddc30e":3},{"id":4,"timestamp":5,"title":6,"content":7,"link":8,"preview":9,"tags":10,"predictedTags":11,"showTags":12,"source":13,"reactions":14,"selfReactions":15,"logo":16,"sourceId":17,"sourceUserId":18,"asset":19,"tagsCategories":20,"totalComments":21,"lang":22,"unique_views_count":23,"enrichStatus":19},"these-10-stocks-were-sandp-5002510192e459-2cc8-7ed6-8451-92f3e5ddc30e","1730406720000","These 10 Stocks Were S&P 500's Top Performers In Biden's First Year: Could Trend Continue If Harris Wins 2024 Election?","\u003Cp>The stock market indexes have enjoyed record highs in recent years with the S&P 500 outperforming other years with President Joe Biden leading the country for the last \u003Ca href=\"https://www.benzinga.com/general/education/24/02/37275812/if-you-invested-in-the-s-p-500-when-joe-biden-became-president-heres-how-much-youd-have-today\">nearly four years.\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>With the 2024 presidential election nearing, here's a look back at the top performing S&P 500 stocks in 2021, which was Biden's first year in the White House.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>What Happened: Biden stepped down from \u003Ca href=\"https://www.benzinga.com/topic/2024-election\">the 2024 presidential election \u003C/a>earlier this year. While the current president won't be re-elected to the White House, past performance with a Democrat as president could highlight which stocks and sectors could be winners if Kamala Harris is victorious in Tuesday's election.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The S&P 500, which is tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:\u003Ca href=\"https://www.benzinga.com/stock/SPY#NYSE\">SPY\u003C/a>) was up 26.9% in 2021. This marked the best yearly performance since 2018 and the second-best performance for the key stock market index in the last 11 years.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The 12 months following Election Day 2020, which was won by Biden, \u003Ca href=\"https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/01/25137004/biden-vs-trump-how-did-stock-market-returns-compare-after-their-first-year-as-president\">saw the S&P 500 gain 37.4%.\u003C/a> This was the best one-year market return under a president in many years.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Here were the 10 best-performing S&P 500 stocks in 2021, according ...\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://www.benzinga.com/general/education/24/10/41665149/these-10-stocks-were-s-p-500s-top-performers-in-bidens-first-year-could-the-trend-continue-if-h\" alt=\"These\">Full story available on Benzinga.com\u003C/a>\u003C/p>","https://www.benzinga.com/general/education/24/10/41665149/these-10-stocks-were-s-p-500s-top-performers-in-bidens-first-year-could-the-trend-continue-if-h","https://cdn.benzinga.com/files/images/story/2024/10/31/White-House-Joe-Biden-Kamala-Harris.jpeg?width=1200&height=800&fit=crop","[]","[\"Market\"]","[{\"name\":\"Market\",\"logo\":\"https://toscalepublic.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/images/protocols/market.png\"}]","251",[],[],"https://toscalepublic.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/images/news-feeds/sources/benzinga.png","Benzinga",null,"","[\"Crypto\"]","0","EN","2"]