Election Night Freefall: Dow Futures Plunge More than 600 Points
NEW YORK (FOX BUSINESS) - U.S. equity futures plunged on Tuesday night as Fox News projected election results in key battleground states of North Carolina and Ohio, which went to Republican nominee Donald Trump.
As traders rushed to reassess the outcome of the election and its consequences on financial markets, they piled into safe havens like gold and government debt. The precious metal rallied 3.38%, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, which moves inversely to its price, declined 0.126 percentage points to 1.73%.
Meanwhile, the Mexican peso plunged 9.71%. The currency has been seen as Wall Street’s favorite proxy for betting on the presidential race during the 2016 election cycle. As Republican nominee Donald Trump’s prospects of winning looked better, especially with the tight race in Florida – a state he needs to carry, the peso dropped.
Volatile action pushed U.S. equity futures solidly lower as electoral vote counts stood at 183 for Trump, and 131 for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. A candidate requires 270 electoral votes to win the White House.
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