Washington State Company Average Stock Market Prices Up 422% Under Obama, a Democratic US Senate and a Quantitative Easing US Fed, After Being Down 60% During Financial Meltdown

I found 41 Washington State 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 9, 2014.

I also included a company whose common stock first started trading during 2008.  And I also included Boeing whose corporate headquarters are in Chicago but which has very substantial operations in the State of Washington.  That makes it 43 Washington State Companies.
 
The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources....  Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.

These 43 Washington State Companies had their average stock market prices decline by a massive 60% 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 43 Washington State Companies have increased by a spectacular 422% through May 9, 2014.

Six of these 43 Washington State Companies had their stock market prices increase by more than 10 times in the most recent roughly 5 years (Nautilis, Clearwater Paper, Isoray, Alaska Air Group, Key Tronic and Expedia), while a 7th one (Cray Inc) was just barely short of 10 times growth.

In similar fashion, 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 spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.

And then with the US economic stimulating actions of the Obama Administration, supported by a Democratically controlled US Senate, 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, Washington State's unemployment rate more than doubled, going from 4.6% in December 2007 to 9.9% in October 2009. And then with the US economic stimulating actions of the Obama Administration, supported by a Democratically controlled US Senate, going full throttle, coupled with the Quantitative Easing by the US Fed, the Washington State unemployment rate declined sharply, going from 9.9% in October 2009 to 6.1% in the most recently reported April 2014.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 43 Washington State Companies on May 9, 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
Washington State Company	HQs		5-9-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	5-9-14	3-6-09
			$s	$s	$s
Nautilis Inc	Vancouver	WA	11.12	0.50	4.85	2124%	-90%
Clearwater Paper	Spokane	WA	63.26	3.25	11.25	1846%	-71%
Isoray	Richland	WA	2.30	0.18	2.01	1178%	-91%
Alaska Air Group	Seattle	WA	94.66	7.54	12.51	1155%	-40%
Key Tronic	Spokane Valley	WA	10.49	0.90	4.18	1066%	-78%
Expedia	Bellevue	WA	68.65	6.08	29.74	1028%	-80%
Cray Inc	Seattle	WA	26.08	2.43	5.99	973%	-59%
Starbucks	Seattle	WA	70.29	8.36	20.47	741%	-59%
Barrett Business Services	Vancouver	WA	46.52	8.14	18.01	471%	-55%
Emeritus Corp	Seattle	WA	29.12	5.10	25.15	471%	-80%
F5 Networks	Seattle	WA	102.71	18.75	28.52	448%	-34%
Esterline Technologies	Bellevue	WA	109.38	20.89	51.75	424%	-60%
Nordstrom	Seattle	WA	61.47	12.16	36.73	406%	-67%
Seattle Genetics	Bothell	WA	35.35	7.23	11.40	389%	-37%
Amazon	Seattle	WA	292.24	61.69	92.64	374%	-33%
Columbia Banking System	Tacoma	WA	25.05	5.55	29.73	351%	-81%
Zumiez	Lynnwood	WA	28.28	6.43	24.36	340%	-74%
Boeing	Chicago	IL	131.10	30.10	87.46	336%	-66%
Weyerhauser	Federal Way	WA	30.30	6.99	26.62	333%	-74%
TrueBlue	Tacoma	WA	26.30	6.17	14.48	326%	-57%
Pope Resources	Poulsbo	WA	69.48	16.45	42.75	322%	-62%
Concur Technologies	Bellevue	WA	77.54	18.52	36.21	319%	-49%
Pendrell	Kirkland	WA	1.41	0.39	3.18	262%	-88%
RealNetworks	Seattle	WA	7.20	2.02	6.09	256%	-67%
Blucora	Bellevue	WA	17.92	5.28	18.80	239%	-72%
Marchex Inc	Seattle	WA	10.59	3.15	17.30	236%	-82%
Oncothyreon	Seattle	WA	2.71	0.90	2.23	201%	-60%
PACCAR	Bellevue	WA	62.57	21.07	54.48	197%	-61%
Costco	Issaquah	WA	115.39	38.98	69.76	196%	-44%
Banner Corp	Walla Walla	WA	39.58	13.86	201.11	186%	-93%
Outerwall Inc	Bellevue	WA	67.43	25.39	28.15	166%	-10%
Microsoft	Redmond	WA	39.54	15.28	35.60	159%	-57%
T-Mobile US	Bellevue	WA	31.84	14.36	19.45	122%	-26%
Washington Federal	Seattle	WA	21.04	10.04	21.11	110%	-52%
Plum Creek Timber	Seattle	WA	44.07	24.02	46.04	83%	-48%
Expeditors Intl Washington	Seattle	WA	43.32	24.60	44.68	76%	-45%
Heritage Financial	Olympia	WA	15.91	9.59	19.90	66%	-52%
Cell Therapeutics	Seattle	WA	2.71	1.70	564.00	60%	-100%
First Financial Northwest	Renton	WA	10.79	7.11	9.84	52%	-28%
Northwest Pipe	Vancouver	WA	35.33	24.21	39.14	46%	-38%
Blue Nile	Seattle	WA	30.18	21.54	68.06	40%	-68%
Itron	Liberty Lake	WA	38.89	41.91	51.84	-7%	-19%
Dendreon	Seattle	WA	1.94	2.61	6.22	-26%	-58%
Average % Change all 43						422%	-60%