Anxious global investors brace for US election results

People vote during the 2024 US presidential election at the Superior Honda Omaha showroom in Nebraska on November 5, 2024. 

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Global investors were on edge as Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday, drawing to a close a dramatic US election cycle that has moved bonds, stocks and other assets in recent months and could further sway markets as results become clearer.

One of the most unusual elections in modern US history could yield starkly different implications for tax and trade policy as well as for US institutions depending on whether Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris prevails.

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