‘Scrap That’: Traders Lose the Plot in Night of 1,000 Twists
- Texting and downing Halloween candy while checking results
- ‘Bourbon was the only way I could make it through the night’
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Wall Street, like the rest of America, had a really long election night.
Fifteen hours after the first election returns rolled in and the prospects for a quick, clear sense of who the next U.S. president would be vanished, weary traders downed a sixth cup of coffee and tried to make sense of what happened.