Trump Nears Victory, US Stocks Surge & Republicans Flip Senate

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On today's podcast:

(1) Republican nominee Donald Trump is on the cusp of recapturing the White House, projected as the winner across pivotal battleground states with his party set to control the Senate and markets swinging in expectation of his likely triumph.

(2) While Trump has not yet been declared the winner by most news outlets, he won Pennsylvania, puncturing Democrats’ Blue Wall and all but ending Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ hopes of mounting a comeback.

(3) US stocks surged, with S&P futures climbing 1.4%; the dollar posted its biggest gain against major currencies since 2020; Treasury bonds tumbled, sending benchmark yields up more than 0.1 percentage point; and Bitcoin soared to a record.

(4) Republicans flip control of the US Senate. They now control at least 51 seats in the 100-member chamber. The GOP knocked out veteran Sherrod Brown in Ohio and picked up an open seat in West Virginia.

(5)World leaders congratulated Donald Trump as he declared victory in the US election, capping one of the most tumultuous campaigns in modern political history to defeat his Democratic challenger Kamala Harris. 

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