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Trump and the Stock Market

How the U.S. presidential election results may affect financial markets in the longer term.

By Michael P. Regan, Bloomberg | Updated on November 09, 2016

It’s the day after the election, and the tricky task at hand on Wall Street is trying to predict what happens next after almost everyone failed to predict what just happened. But don’t expect that to stop everyone from trying.

It’s hard to determine how volatile markets will be in the near term, and the longer term is even more difficult. As a Donald Trump victory came into focus overnight, S&P 500 futures went a jaw-dropping “limit down” with a 5 percent plunge that briefly halted trading. They went on to recover most of that plunge before the open, and the first two hours of trading looked like another day in the office, with benchmark indexes flat to down slightly. 

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