Nikkei 225 · November 9, 2016
US Election Night
-5.36%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
Two and a half years the world rose together
early in it · 2016-02-12 → 2018-10-02, +62.32% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- 9 November 2016 — Nikkei 225 fell 5.36%. Tokyo was mid-session while the US presidential votes were counted
- The market dropped sharply when the result differed from expectations
- It was unclear how trade policy would change and what that meant for Japanese exports to the US
- The reaction reversed within days
- As attention shifted to expected tax cuts and infrastructure spending, US stocks rose and Japanese stocks rebounded with them
- Which is why the peak-to-trough figure stopped at 6.85% — the shallowest on this list
- A case study in how a market's verdict on the same event can invert within days
Sources
Every figure on this page is recomputed from the original daily closing prices and checked against them at build time. The account of what happened is written from the sources listed above.