6 more points for my A-W investor’s guide to the post-Trump victory financial landscape

The problem with trying to put together a comprehensive guide to the likely investment impacts of a Trump administration on the fly in the day after the election is that you inevitably leave stuff out. This being the Internet, however, it’s easy to add on to that post. Here are the six points that I forget to make yesterday. I’m posting them here separately and also folding them into last night’s post so that guide will be in not complete at least completer. The six items are China, Rudy Giuliani, Oil, Russia, Tax repatriation, and War.

Odds of U.S. military intervention in Syria rise after chemical weapons attack

U.S. stocks fell in the last hour of New York trading after Secretary of State John Kerry raised the odds for armed U.S. intervention in Syria. With U.S. allies and other countries expressing the need to punish the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad for what looks like the use of chemical weapons on August 21 in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, markets closed modestly lower.