Clinton didn’t knock out Trump but the financial markets still believe she has better chance.
Although Donald Trump came to this debate more serious and prepared than the first round, and Hillary Clinton wasn’t so dominant as she was at the previous time, it wasn’t enough for Trump to change the market’s perception of the direction of the race. On one hand,
“I don’t think it changed people’s opinion in the investing community that Clinton is more likely to win, as she was before the debate, certainty after Friday”. Said to Reuters Rick Meckler, president of investment firm LibertyView Capital Management. On the other hand, the Mexican peso, the main barometer for Trump’s performance on the polls in the last weeks, has given up after the debate on some of the gains he reached yesterday before the debate. That’s suggesting the investors saw no clear winner from this debate.
Trump came to this debate after a painful weekend. In Friday it been released a record type of him from 2005, where he heard saying sexual offensive comments about women he used to work with. Trump lost a lot of his credibility and respect due to those sensnetail records, even among his Republican colleagues and voters. When Trump asked about it on the debate he said that he apologize to his family and to the American people, but claimed it was a “locker-room talks” and “just words”. Clinton, from her side, attacked Trump and said “the video represents who he [Trump] is”.
But Clinton didn’t take the full advantage from this situation and didn’t knocked out Trump for good. Trump even try to strike back, and claimed that Clinton attacked women who been abused by his husband, Bill Clinton, when he was the president. Trump also keep blame Hilary over the issue of the private email server she used as the secretary state. Trump threated that if he will be elected he will instruct his general attorney “to get a special prosecutor” to look into Clinton’s situations. Clinton tried to reply and said that is “awfully good” that Trump isn’t in charge of the law of the US, but Trump interfered in her things and said “Because you’d be in jail”.
Economic issues didn’t’ appeared on the agenda of this debate, except on question that been asked by the host to Trump, about reports been released last week that he doesn’t pay federal taxes for years. Trump replied simply: ”I paid taxes and I paid federal tax”.
The analyzers and the viewers cannot decide who won. Nobody said Trump takes it all, but neither Clinton did. “The market declared tonight’s draw and has no more clue after debate than before” said JJ Kinahan, chief market of strategist at TD Ameitrade “Once again the debate was a great theater, but did not give the market any insight.
