Visiting the White House can boost your stock price

New research shows that visiting the White House during the Obama years yielded a payoff in the stock price of the visitor’s company. Will the same be true of the Trump years?

We may never know, because President Donald Trump has ended Barack Obama’s practice of making the visitor log public.

The study, which was released late last month on the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research, found the shares of companies whose top executives visited White House officials performed about 0.9 percentage point better than the overall stock market after the visits.