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CHART: How The Stock Market Reacted To Every State Of The Union Since FDR

Feb 13, 2013, 15:03 IST

Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech. It had its moving moments and bizarre moments.

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In terms of the message, Obama called for a $9 minimum wage. But overall, his policy stance was largely reiterated.

European markets and U.S. futures are up a tad this morning. But it doesn't seem like the market will move a whole base on the speech alone.

"Most SOTU speeches see less than a 1% move in the stock market on the following day, and the average move is only 0.15%," wrote LPL Financial's Jeff Kleintop in his weekly market commentary yesterday.

Here's a look at the post-SOTU stock market moves since 1934:

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