Indiana Company Average Stock Market Prices Up 815% Under Obama, a Democratic US Senate and a Quantitative Easing US Fed, After Being Down 58% During Financial Meltdown

I found 42 Indiana Headquartered Companies in Yahoo's or Google's superb Finance websites or from SEC filings with current Total Market Capitalizations of at least $100 mil and which also had their common stocks trading on each of the following three dates:

• On December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second term
• On March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the lowest point for the US stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the 2008 financial meltdown, and 
• also on the most recent date May 14, 2014.

I also included two Indiana Companies which were sold in November 2013 and April 2014.  And I also included one Indiana Company whose common stock first started trading in early 2008.  That makes 45 Indiana Companies.

The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources....  Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.

These 45 Indiana Companies had their average stock market prices decline by a massive 58% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, to March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the very lowest point for the overall stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.

But in the slightly more than five years since March 6, 2009, the average stock market prices of these same 45 Indiana Companies have increased by a phenomenally off-the-charts 815% through May 14, 2014, led mainly by Patrick Industries' stock market price up a massive 111 times, Remy Intl up 47 times, CNO Financial up 42 times and Escalade up 35 times, all in the most recent roughly 5 years.

In similar fashion, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US unemployment rate doubled from 5.0% in December 2007 to 10.0% in October 2009, early in President Obama's first term which was the very lowest point for the US Labor Market due to the lagging spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.

And then with the US economic stimulating actions of the Obama Administration, supported by both a Democratic controlled US Senate and US House (at the time), taking full effect, coupled with the Quantitative Easing by the US Fed, the US unemployment rate declined sharply from 10.0% in October 2009 to 6.3% in the most recently reported April 2014.

In like manner, Indiana's unemployment rate more than doubled, going from 4.6% in December 2007 to 10.4% in October 2009.  And then with the US economic stimulating actions of the Obama Administration, supported by both a Democratic controlled US Senate and US House (at the time), going full throttle, coupled with the Quantitative Easing by the US Fed, the Indiana State unemployment rate declined precipitously, going from 10.4% in October 2009 to 5.7% in the most recently reported April 2014.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 45 Indiana Companies on May 14, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, along with the related Stock Market Price Percentage Changes:

						Market	Market
						Price	Price
						%	%
						Change	Change
			Market	Market	Market	3-6-09	12-31-07
			Price	Price	Price	to	to
Indiana Company	HQs		5-14-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	5-14-14	3-6-09
			$s	$s	$s
Patrick Industries	Elkhart	IN	38.41	0.34	9.96	11131%	-97%
Remy Intl	Pendleton	IN	23.90	0.50	31.50	4680%	-98%
CNO Financial Group	Carmel	IN	16.49	0.38	12.56	4239%	-97%
Escalade	Evansville	IN	14.86	0.41	9.13	3524%	-96%
Wabash National	Lafayette	IN	13.20	0.95	7.69	1289%	-88%
Emmis Communications	Indianapolis	IN	3.14	0.30	3.85	947%	-92%
Supreme Industries	Goshen	IN	5.97	0.73	5.06	714%	-86%
Drew Industries	Elkhart	IN	48.62	6.04	27.40	705%	-78%
Cummins	Columbus	IN	151.70	19.34	63.69	684%	-70%
CTS Corp	Elkhart	IN	16.89	2.26	9.93	647%	-77%
Simon Property Group	Indianapolis	IN	174.27	26.19	86.86	565%	-70%
CFS Bancorp	Munster	IN	12.52	1.95	14.69	542%	-87%
Finish Line	Indianapolis	IN	28.95	4.51	2.42	542%	86%
Interactive Intelligence Group	Indianapolis	IN	47.39	8.33	26.35	469%	-68%
Thor Industries	Elkhart	IN	59.22	10.47	38.01	466%	-72%
Shoe Carnival	Evansville	IN	21.82	4.31	9.41	406%	-54%
Tower Financial	Fort  Wayne	IN	23.54	4.75	13.00	396%	-63%
Haynes Intl	Kokomo	IN	56.02	11.35	69.50	394%	-84%
Mutualfirst Financial	Muncie	IN	18.90	4.10	13.94	361%	-71%
Celadon Group	Indianapolis	IN	21.89	4.75	9.16	361%	-48%
Franklin Electric	Fort Wayne	IN	37.72	9.00	19.14	319%	-53%
Hill-Rom Holdings	Batesville	IN	38.90	9.34	29.96	316%	-69%
Horizon Bancorp	Michigan City	IN	20.30	4.98	11.40	308%	-56%
Duke Realty	Indianapolis	IN	17.45	4.48	26.08	290%	-83%
WellPoint	Indianapolis	IN	105.67	31.41	87.73	236%	-64%
Calumet Specialty Product Partners LP	Indianapolis	IN	30.10	9.45	37.03	219%	-74%
Zimmer Holdings	Warsaw	IN	100.93	32.66	66.15	209%	-51%
Hurco Companies	Indianapolis	IN	27.65	9.21	43.65	200%	-79%
Mainsource Financial Group	Greensburg	IN	16.25	5.42	15.56	200%	-65%
Kimball Intl	Jasper	IN	16.64	5.81	13.70	186%	-58%
First Merchants	Muncie	IN	20.18	7.76	21.84	160%	-64%
German American Bancorp	Jasper	IN	25.09	10.51	12.74	139%	-18%
Lakeland Financial	Warsaw	IN	35.84	15.02	20.90	139%	-28%
Steel Dynamics	Fort Wayne	IN	18.14	7.89	29.79	130%	-74%
Kite Realty Group Trust	Indianapolis	IN	6.37	2.93	15.27	117%	-81%
Eli Lilly	Indianapolis	IN	60.10	27.98	53.39	115%	-48%
1st Source	South Bend	IN	30.20	15.16	17.31	99%	-12%
Hillenbrand	Batesville	IN	29.65	16.05	18.00	85%	-11%
Symmetry Medical	Warsaw	IN	8.11	4.41	17.43	84%	-75%
Republic Airways	Indianapolis	IN	9.68	5.45	19.59	78%	-72%
Old National Bancorp	Evansville	IN	13.56	9.30	14.96	46%	-38%
Baldwin & Lyons	Indianapolis	IN	26.01	19.03	27.46	37%	-31%
First Financial Bancorp	Terre Haute	IN	31.31	31.68	28.34	-1%	12%
hhgregg	Indianapolis	IN	8.32	10.33	13.76	-19%	-25%
ITT Educational Services	Carmel	IN	25.08	101.37	85.27	-75%	19%
Average % Change all 45						815%	-58%