Kamala Harris

US Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to leave Monday on the five-day trip to Singapore, Bahrain and Germany in her final week in office before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.

The close contest has elevated volatility in markets.

Among the scenarios, analyst Edith Qian expects to see a "more benign" impact on China stocks should Harris win the election.

As expected, much of the hedging for the election has showed up at the last minute

We spiral towards the final week of the US presidential election as communities in rural Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina decide the fate of the world.

Trump is a living testament to the right’s repudiation of freedom. Fortunately, Harris is showing what it looks like when progressives embrace and advance this core American value.

Griffin believes Trump to be in favour for a win, but at 'almost a coin toss'.

Harris said the question was among the “issues that we will deal with if and when it arrives at that point”.

Whether it is the coming presidential election, how America’s economy performs, what its central bank will do, how the USD will move or how much oil it could produce — all these matters greatly to us.

“She’s done one debate. I’ve done two,” Trump said. “The voting is cast. The voters are out there.”