Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS Trump and Obama shake hands in the Oval Office.
Wall Street analysts are trying to figure out just what the economy will look like under a President Donald Trump.
And though many questions are still unanswered, they are nearly unanimous on one thing: Trump's policies will most likely bring about a significant uptick in inflation.
It was one of the dominant trades on Wall Street after Trump's surprise victory.
Here are the top election related headlines:
- Donald Trump's shocking victory is defying all of the doomsday markets predictions that preceded it
- The Dow Jones broke through its previous intraday all-time high as soon as the market opened
- Tech stocks are getting clobbered
- Trump is reportedly considering JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary
- RAY DALIO: "There is much more that we don't know than we do know"
- BLACK SWAN FUND: Markets have a "volatility blind spot" with Trump
- Stan Druckenmiller is "very optimistic" about the economy
- Treasurys are getting slammed again
- Investors think America may be the only winner under President Trump
- China shouldn't be too worried about a President Trump
- A small town in Ohio holds clues to Trump's victory
In other news, Fitbit just got a very fishy takeover offer. A biotech startup that aims to rid our bodies of cells related to aging just got a big investment. And Adobe is acquiring ad tech company TubeMogul for $540 million.
Yahoo warned investors Verizon might back out of its $4.8 billion deal over the big data breach. And Twitter COO Adam Bain is stepping down and being replaced by CFO Anthony Noto.
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Here are the top Wall Street headlines at midday
A 33-year old rockstar Goldman Sachs salesman just landed the most coveted title on Wall Street - Goldman Sachs just named 84 new partners, and for one individual, the lofty rank arrived in double-quick time.
The world's largest hedge fund reimburses employees half the cost of $1,000 meditation lessons - Around eight years ago, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio introduced Transcendental Meditation to his 735 employees.
Tesla and SolarCity are dealing with a critical business problem - As Tesla prepares to acquire SolarCity and create an integrated auto-energy-power storage company, SolarCity's legacy business model is undergoing a change.
China fixes its currency at the lowest level in six years - The People's Bank of China fixed the yuan at 6.7885, its weakest since September 2010, amid worries President-elect Donald Trump could name China as a currency manipulator.
A pharma giant just made a $100 million move into a disease that's been called "one of the next epidemic-level chronic diseases" - Bristol-Myers Squibb, the drug company whose stock has been hit hard by a failure in the competitive cancer-immunotherapy space, is going to develop an entirely different kind of drug.