Here's why stock investors should be excited by the Olympics

Reuters/Bruno Kelly The XXXI Olympiad, known as Rio 2016 or the 2016 Summer Olympic games, is now days away from starting. The athletes are primed, as too are Olympic enthusiasts, preparing to endure two weeks of sleep deprivation in order to cheer their countrymen and women towards gold. There’s another group that should be getting excited about the imminent arrival of the Olympics: stock market investors. According to new research produced by ANZ, looking back over the periods of past games,...