Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Stock futures plunge as Trump holds slim Florida, Ohio leads

Bloomberg reports:
U.S. stock futures fell in volatile trading as investors assessed media projections that showed a handful of key states too close to call in the presidential election, with Republican Donald Trump holding a slim leads in Florida and Ohio.

December contracts on the S&P 500 Index lost 2 percent to 2,093.75 at 9:20 p.m. in New York, wiping out gains that reached 0.8 percent. Key battlegrounds of Virginia and North Carolina are among other states where polls have closed and results have been too close to call...
Imagine that.