Markets ‘to take FBI probe in stride’

The re-opened controversy facing the Hillary Clinton campaign over emails has unsettled markets, but will not blow them off course in the next few days, a leading markets commentator and trader has predicted.

Peter Brown, owner of Baggot Asset Management, yesterday said revelations that the FBI had re-opened an investigation into Ms Clinton’s emails had jolted US stock and currency markets late Friday, but that financial observers were still pricing in the assumption that she will comfortably secure the White House in the election on tomorrow week.

“It was fully digested on Friday. The dollar had a dip.