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  • ALL ORDS

    7,771.10
    -127.80 (-1.62%)
     

  • ASX 200

    7,521.50
    -120.60 (-1.58%)
     

  • AUD/USD

    0.6376
    -0.0050 (-0.77%)
     

  • OIL

    86.04
    +3.31 (+4.00%)
     

  • GOLD

    2,416.50
    +18.50 (+0.77%)
     

  • Bitcoin AUD

    95,078.26
    -1,624.28 (-1.68%)
     

  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,243.07
    +357.53 (+37.48%)
     

  • AUD/EUR

    0.6001
    -0.0030 (-0.49%)
     

  • AUD/NZD

    1.0871
    -0.0004 (-0.04%)
     

  • NZX 50

    11,754.52
    -81.52 (-0.69%)
     

  • NASDAQ

    17,394.31
    -99.31 (-0.57%)
     

  • FTSE

    7,877.05
    +29.06 (+0.37%)
     

  • Dow Jones

    37,775.38
    +22.07 (+0.06%)
     

  • DAX

    17,837.40
    +67.38 (+0.38%)
     

  • Hang Seng

    16,148.60
    -237.27 (-1.45%)
     

  • NIKKEI 225

    36,818.81
    -1,260.89 (-3.31%)
     

UPDATE: MARKET MELTDOWN: DOW OFF NEARLY 270 AFTER OBAMA VICTORY

Sam Ro

Stocks are getting destroyed.

Markets actually spent most of the morning positive in the wake of President Obama's reelection.

However, at around 7:30 AM EST CNBC's Becky Quick noted that the ECB's Mario Draghi said that "Data suggest economic slowdown has reached Germany."

Indeed, much of the recent economic data out of Germany has been much more worrisome than economists had forecasted.

Markets tanked immediately after these comments came out.

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