World markets cheer Obama
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Global stocks traded higher and U.S. futures rose on Tuesday as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was named the projected winner.
The Nikkei, the major index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, rose 2.8 percent in early trading. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong surged almost 6 percent at its open. The Australian All Ordinaries index was up nearly 2 percent.
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Americans turned out in record numbers to cast their votes for Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. At 11 p.m., CNN projected Obama as the winner over McCain in the electoral college.
Obama's substantial lead was providing optimism for global markets.
"From the world perspective, Obama is perceived as a better candidate and I think they are voting with their dollars," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago.
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HELLO WORLD! AMERICA IS BACK!
NO MORE COWBOY "DIPLOMACY"!!!!
Congratulations to President Obama. Yes we can!!!
Geeze CNN, can you at least be professional. I hear the interference of your commentators cell phones constantly pinging the cell towers on the broadcast. Can you be more unprofessional? Make them turn off their phones.
A new time begins in the US. God bless America and President Obama!!
He's already proving to be a positive leader!
Congratulations to President elect, Barack Obama. He has come a long way and has broken that barrier that any thing is possible.
I guess they really haven't paid much attention to the policies Obama is proposing. Policies that will further weaken the US, and thus the world, economy. They just like him better
Interesting!
You mean all those right wingers foaming at the mouth on these blogs may not be right? That the world believes Obama may be able to turn this around?
Let's hope the right wingers join in.
This is the change we have been waiting for. Words cannot begin to express my excitement right now...8 years of this awful mess. Now its our turn!!!!!
Look at that, making money already, "WITHOUT TAX INCREASES"!
That's because the stock of our country has raised itself out of the gutter and,for the very first time,we have the real possibility of "putting our money where our mouth is" and live up to our talk of equal and human rights!
Good ole boys you'd better get the message that the rest of the country just sent you as well!
Things Are Looking Better Already!
The race is over. Barack is our president. God Bless America...
NO MORE SARAH THE LIAR
Obama is what the whole world wants and needs – unity, not division. Love, not hate.
NO MORE LIARS
Congratulations! What a magnificient win. May you go from strength to strength President Obama.
I think it is now appropriate for Neal Boark to issue a formal apology for his comments about President Obama going to Hawaii to change is birth certificate and further more get off the air and stop spreading division and hate or face the fact this is a diverse nation built by the sweat of all its citizentry and we have all spoken.
Today the people of these United States cast the second most important vote in our history. The first was July 2, 1776 when the Continental Congress ratified a decleration that proclaimed to the world "We hold these truths to be self evident."
OBAMA! MY PRESIDENT!
The Ice Empress has her clothes reposessed.
I love President Barack Hussein Obama.
Google Hussein – it's not a nasty word. You'll be surprised.
God has shone on this country and the world.
That's because the world has seen that our country has raised itself out of the gutter and for the very first time,we can "put our money where our mouth is" when it comes to equal and human rights".
That message has been sent loud and clear to the "good 'ole boys" as well.Shape up or ship out!
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President Obama & Vice President Biden!!!!!
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would certainly hope that the markets were purposely being dumbed down for a presidential election.
I concede that I did not vote for Obama, but I definetely did not like Palin as a VP. I still to this day think that Mitt Romney would have been a better Pres. Candidate or at the very least VP. His business expertise is what the economy really needs.
All of this being said, if we are still in poor shape in 4 years, Democrats will have to blame themselves. You have 100% control of this country now, anything less than a great overall will be deemed failure.
"were not" not "were" sorry
I knew the minute he was elected you would start reporting the economy is turning. The economy has been recovering for two weeks.
Congratulations!! To God Be The Glory!
November 4, 2008