U.S. elections have an outsized effect on the stock market. The results are always catalysts, and the policies supported by the candidate who ends up winning the presidency, as well as the final composition of the House of Representatives, tend to favor some sectors more so than others. However, mounting tensions with China, increasingly considered a near-peer in terms of defense, as well as current tensions in the Middle East, have led both parties and their candidates to adopt largely similar stances on d ...