Michael Hogan
The US election confirmed the death of an extraordinary economic era. Now, control of the next must be wrested from the emboldened nationalists.
Markets have risen in response to President-elect Trump, particularly in the pharmaceutical and financial industries.
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World markets bounced back surprisingly quickly after Trump’s election. Here are a few theories as to why.
Muslims do have important reasons to worry about a Trump presidency. But it may not be all doom and gloom.
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A Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for Muslims. Yes, there is cause for concern but there is reason for optimism too.
Donald Trump must now work with his new colleagues on Capitol Hill to deliver on his election commitments.
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Understandably, there is considerable global confusion, and some concern, as to just how Trump will govern.
Transferrable skills include ribbon cutting.
EPA/Shawn Thew
Donald Trump has never held public office, but executive and global leadership are wholly interlinked so business offers some important lessons for the president-elect.
Donald Trump brings aggression into the US Presidency that threatens world stability.
REUTERS/Stephen Lam
One of the messages coming out of Donald Trump’s victory is that his supporters are rejecting the tolerance and cosmopolitanism of the past 30 years.
Trump’s victory threatens to unleash stronger prejudice against minorities.
Reuters/Rebecca Cook
The United States under the leadership of Donald Trump is expected to pursue isolationist policies which could hurt Africa.
Trump must know low-tech manufacturing jobs are not coming back to America.
Aly Song/Reuters
Many of the US’s current and mooted free trade negotiations are now dead in the water, but that doesn’t mean it’s game over for free trade.
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election defied almost all predictions.
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Swinburne political scientist Bryan Cranton looks at why so many experts got the US Election so wrong
Polls are best guesses, votes are real.
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People around the world were shocked when Hillary Clinton, ahead in many polls, didn’t end up the U.S.‘ president-elect. But that doesn’t mean the polls themselves were wrong.
News coverage of the 2016 US Presidential Election in Times Square, New York.
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The media as an institution in the United States is in a deplorable condition, and President-elect Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of its failings.
Pollsters seemed to grow reflective as the night wore on.
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Many pollsters are now eating humble pie.
Jubilant: President-elect Trump.
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It wasn’t supposed to happen, but Trump’s mastery of the dark arts was just too great.
Coming your way.
EPA/Tannen Maury
After seeing the worst of American democracy, the outside world will have to adjust to a hugely unpredictable president.
Employees of a Japanese foreign exchange company keep a close eye on the progress of the presidential election.
Toru Hanai/Reuters
Some might say that financial markets over-reacted to the Brexit vote and the market reaction to the US election is the same. But Brexit won’t happen till 2019, a Trump victory has already happened.
The ASX200 closed down 2% on the day of the US election.
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Global markets are spooked - and with good reason.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have approached the US economy from two completely different directions.
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Looking back over past US elections you can see how the terms of the economic debate have varied – as the solutions to past crises have set the groundwork for renewed instability.
Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo
If the Donald Trumps of the world want to find out how the masters of manufacturing elections work, they had better visit Zimbabwe before their internecine struggles close them down
FBI Director James Comey on Capitol Hill explaining his why he won’t prosecute Hillary Clinton.
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A historian and biographer of J. Edgar Hoover answers questions on how FBI director James Comey is handling a position with a dark past.
Protestors chant after a rally.
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In America’s past, efforts by disadvantaged citizens to secure greater political influence have been met with violent repression.