A win by a descendant of the AFL sends the market down. Teams created since the merger count for their conference, National or American. This means that a sixth Super Bowl victory by Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and company on Sunday would send the stock market into negative territory for the rest of the year.

The Super Bowl winner predicts the direction of stocks in a given year about 75% of the time. It’s been around since the Super Bowl was first played in 1967, three years before the merger of the American Football League (AFC Conference) and the National Football League (NFC Conference). The Super Bowl Indicator is a superstition that says that the stock market's performance in a given year can be predicted based on the outcome of the Super Bowl of that year. It was "discovered" by Leonard Koppett in the '70s when he realized that it had never been wrong, until that point. This pseudo-macroeconomic concept states that if a team from the American Football Conference wins, then it will be a bear market, but if a team from the National Football Conference or a team that was in the The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champs, and their victory is not so welcome news for stock-market investors. A win for an NFC team would indicate a bull market for that year according to this theory. There is obviously no logical reason for the Super Bowl outcome and the stock market to be related, but the Super Bowl indicator has a surprising rate of accuracy of around 80%. So is it true?

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Does the Super Bowl winner predict annual stock market performance? David Mikkelson. Published 17 January 2000. Image via Ruslan Ivantsov / Shutterstock. 3 Feb 2020 Theoretically, the Super Bowl Predictor states that the U.S. stock market will climb north if the winner is from the NFL and an AFL win would  30 Jan 2020 The theory is that if a team from the AFC (like Kansas City) wins the Super Bowl, the stock market will be down for the year. If an NFC team (like  28 Jan 2020 Will your portfolio be fortified by a 49ers win – or get chipped by the Chiefs? The Super Bowl Theory holds that when a team from the old National for a perfect season, but it didn't do any favors for the stock market. In fact  31 Jan 2020 The Super Bowl Indicator suggests stocks rise for the full year when the Super Bowl winner has come from the original National Football 

than the Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor, which asserts that the league affiliation of the Super Bowl winner predicts stock market direction. In this study, we 

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3 Feb 2020 The stock market definitely has a rooting interest in who wins the Super Bowl. In this case, the Chiefs won—and an AFC team winning could be 

3 Feb 2020 The Super Bowl, Groundhog Day and the stock market are prime targets In the two weeks between the end of the conference championship  1 Feb 2019 Some say there is actually a difference in the performance of the stock market based on which team wins the Super Bowl. Have you heard this  6 Jun 2019 The Super Bowl Indicator, also known as the Super Bowl Effect, is a theory that stock prices will fall if the AFC team wins the Super Bowl. 31 Jan 2020 Super Bowl 2020, or Super Bowl LIV, pits two upstart teams with dynamic offenses in the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers against  2 Feb 2020 The trend of mega stars performing during the Super Bowl didn't Some Americans couldn't care less who actually wins the Super Bowl every year. NEW YORK — The vicious swings keep coming for the stock market, and  31 Jan 2019 In addition, since our in-house research indicates that the performance of the stock market can be a useful one year lagging indicator of how the 

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Stock Market News; Top Stocks for 2020; Here are three of the biggest winners of the "Super Bowl of healthcare" and whether or not they're smart picks to buy now. Its stock soared 40% last He noted the NFC's Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018, but the S&P fell 6.2% for the year. And the NFC's New York Giants won in 2008, when the market fell 37%.

A win for an NFC team would indicate a bull market for that year according to this theory. There is obviously no logical reason for the Super Bowl outcome and the stock market to be related, but the Super Bowl indicator has a surprising rate of accuracy of around 80%. So is it true? Historical precedent suggests an NFC Super Bowl victory is better for the stock market than an AFC win. That’s even more crucial this year as the San Francisco 49ers (NFC) face off against the Kansas City Chiefs (AFC). After a volatile week on Wall Street, some NFL fun is just what the doctor ordered. Stock Market News; Top Stocks for 2020; Here are three of the biggest winners of the "Super Bowl of healthcare" and whether or not they're smart picks to buy now. Its stock soared 40% last He noted the NFC's Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018, but the S&P fell 6.2% for the year. And the NFC's New York Giants won in 2008, when the market fell 37%. Specifically, if an old (pre-merger) NFL team won the Super Bowl the market closed up for the year and if an old AFL team won the Super Bowl, the market closed down for the year.