Financial Markets Soared on Obama's Victory

Financial markets strengthened ahead of the election results in spite of weakness in the dataflow as investors getting more confident that Obama would be re-elected*. Wall Street gained with the DJIA and the S&P 500 adding +1.02% and +0.79% respectively. Commodities also jumped as the US dollar weakened.

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Financial Markets Soared on Obama's Victory