The GE and the market: possible scenarios
HOW might the stock market react to the results of Friday's General Election? Would it fall if the Opposition won more seats? Or would a resounding victory for the governing party set off a rally?
Probably neither. The local market is typically not as dependent on domestic factors as it is on external developments and as things stand now, there are two big worries on the latter front - China's slowing economy-cum-crashing stock market, and the question of when US interest rates will rise.
Furthermore, past GEs have not had much impact on the market, so short of a huge upset which would then mean we'd have entered uncharted territory, there's no reason to expect this time to be different.
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