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While the US presidential elections understandably held the attention of market participants on Tuesday as polling booths opened, some bankers believe that central bank policy will overshadow the result for SSA borrowers whatever it may be.

Though none of them are ruling out a victory for Donald Trump, FIG market participants are positioned for Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 US presidential election. Banks could be ready to launch new trades on the same day as the result is announced.

Derivatives markets across asset classes are projecting increased confidence of a Hillary Clinton win in Tuesday's US presidential election, but also revealing concern that volatility could then evaporate from markets for the rest of the year.

The chance to avoid an assault course of monetary policy announcements will give emerging markets borrowers reason to flood into primary markets once the result of Tuesday's US presidential election is announced, syndicate officials have said, especially if Hillary Clinton prevails. But those same bankers doubted the robustness of demand to take down a large volume of issuance so close to year-end.

Only hours before one of the most tightly contested US presidential election in recent times is decided, participants in the European high yield market gave the event as non-plussed a shrug as it could manage.

The crushing of recent Hong Kong IPOs in secondary and the anxiety it has caused among investors has led to much finger-pointing in the ECM fraternity. But to lay the blame squarely at the feet of a single bank or deal is hardly fair. In an IPO market strewn with casualties, everyone has to share the responsibility.

On the eve of the US election covered bond bankers considered what the election outcome might mean for their market. A clear victory for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, would be likely to spur risk aversion which could ultimately improve demand for safer assets such as covered bonds from strong core European issuers.

Equity capital markets are bracing for the US presidential election on Tuesday. Participants believe Hillary Clinton is narrowly more likely to win, but that stockmarkets around the world would fall if Donald Trump won.

A victory for Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s US presidential election — made more likely by the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying over the weekend that it found no evidence of criminality in a batch of her emails it had investigated — would likely see a return to “business as usual” for public sector bond markets and a US rate rise in December, said market participants on Monday.

Emerging market assets were buoyed by a turn in sentiment over the weekend as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's second probe into Hilary Clinton's emails was dropped. However, buying was limited as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the election and .

FIG borrowers’ last clear window for issuance hangs in the balance ahead of Tuesday’s US elections, as bankers fear a victory for Donald Trump would limit November supply and raise new issue premiums considerably.

This is a rather tumultuous week for the United States. Thankfully, the European loan market is insulated from world events - a serene pool of readily available capital, though one where people have some rather strong views.