Finally! The United States presidential election is over, and Donald Trump pulled out an upset victory over Hillary Clinton. We can finally move on with our lives.
The media are now focusing on the aftermath, and one of the key factors being honed in on are the global financial markets.
During the Brexit debate, many forecast that all of the financial markets would plunge, businesses would go bankrupt, the euro and the British pound sterling would be wiped away and that the entire world would be in a crisis. Well, that did not happen.
Of course, throughout the election cycle, the same prognostications were made about a Trump victory. Have they come to fruition just hours after his historic win? Not quite.
Sure, there have been some losses, but as you can tell from the chart below, the losses aren’t as immense as previously predicted by the esteemed analysts.
Here is the chart of the global financial markets as of this writing:
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