Wall Street makes trading elections sound as easy as falling off a log: just invest in the stocks or sectors that are sure to benefit most under the proposed policies of one presidential candidate or the other and profits are sure to follow. Reality seems to often disappoint.

After the election, investors will shift their attention to the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision on Thursday.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House. Follow latest polling here.

This has been a fairly light policy election and more one of personality and just really big-picture, high-level ideas,” he said. Meanwhile, control of Congress is also up for grabs which makes it even more difficult to just choose a basket of stocks,

Indian benchmark indices were reeling under severe pressure on Monday with benchmarks tumbling 1.5 per cent each, amid the sharp sell-off by FIIs and uncertainty over the US elections.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump are bracing for this week's high-stakes election showdown, with various polls showing them in a tight margin-of-error race.