Nervous Wall Street is slightly up on election day – E24

(E24) Published: 22:08 – 08.11.2016, Updated: 22:41 – 08.11.2016

the Americans select their next president today, and the trade in New York went gently in anticipation of the outcome that becomes clear on the night of Wednesday Norwegian time.

Wall Street opened slightly down, but turned to slightly up after a couple of hours. When the trading day was over, were the three main indexes still up.

• S&P 500 were up 0,38 percent.
  
• Dow Jones was up 0,40 percent.
  
• the Nasdaq Composite was up 0,53 per cent.

the Market believe a Clinton victory will ease the cloud of uncertainty that has hung over us for the last two weeks, ” says Michael James, of Wedbush Securities, to Reuters.

Hope at Clinton

Wall Street had a very good day yesterday, which was the first trading day after the news that the FBI not proceed with the new e-postfunnene in Hillary Clinton’s e-postskandale.

the financial market hope evenly over the Clinton win, and the news that the FBI not proceed with the new findings, was therefore very well received.

the Indexes were up over two per cent, which was the best trading day since march of this year.

Art Hogan, chief strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said to CNBC that there is consensus in the market that the best will be if Clinton wins, democrats take the Senate and the republicans retaining the house of Representatives.

– Any result that is not this is a negative for the market, ” says Hogan.

Think Trump is the best

The american finansprofessoren and investor Scott Rothbort believes, however, that a victory to Donald Trump may be the best for the market. In an article at Marketwatch lists he up eight valgscenarioer.

Scenario with Trump as president, victory for the republicans in the Senate and democrats in the Representatives house, will be best in the long term, he considers.

– keep in Mind that Trump is better to make arrangements than he is a political “hardliner”, enter the investor, who believe it will be possible for the new president to compromise with Paul Ryan as the leader of the house of Representatives, and Chuck Schumer as majoritetsleder in the Senate.