These are the 4 big stock market implications of Joe Biden’s upcoming

On Jan 14, 2021

Democrats’ imminent control of Congress and the Presidency later this month will have big implications for the stock market, Ned Davis Research outlined in a note on Thursday.
Key agenda items for President-elect Joe Biden should make waves in the following sectors: infrastructure and construction, clean energy, healthcare and technology, according to the note.
Detailed below are the four big stock market implications of President-elect Joe Biden’s upcoming agenda.
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President-elect Joe Biden is set to make waves in the stock market as he enacts his agenda over the next four years.

The impacts will likely be far-ranging after Democrats regained control of the Senate following the Georgia Senate run-off elections last week. With Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock edging out their Republican competitors, Democrats now control the Senate with the tie-breaking vote going to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

Democrats are already considering to combine infrastructure spending and COVID-19 relief legislation into a single multi-trillion-dollar bill that wouldn’t require Republican votes to pass, two Democratic Senate aides told Insider.

The implications to certain sectors within the stock market are big, according to a Thursday note from Ned Davis Research.

Detailed below are the four big stock market implications of President-elect Joe Biden’s upcoming agenda, according to NDR.

1. Infrastructure

Democrats will likely prioritize infrastructure spending as it is more politically welcoming to aim fiscal stimulus at Main Street over Wall Street, and it was a main campaign theme for Biden, NDR said.

“We favor owning construction-related industries, especially those that will also benefit from a strong residential construction market,” NDR explained.

The firm likes companies within the building products, construction materials, construction machinery, and trading companies and distributors subsectors.

“Concerns that higher rates will kill housing have caused construction-related [stocks] to pull back, but the extreme supply/demand housing imbalance keeps us long-term bullish,” NDR said.

2. Clean energy

Any major stimulus bill could include an increase in electric vehicle charging stations and/or tax credits for purchasing electric vehicles, according to NDR, as well as providing incentives for wind and solar energy.

But there might be too much excitement around clean energy stocks, as evidenced by the 250% surge in the largest clean energy ETF, Invesco’s WilderHill Clean Energy ETF, over the past year, NDR said.

“Any clean energy plan should also include fossil fuel and pollution reduction. This would benefit independent power producers, renewable energy, and…