How to watch for swings in markets as election returns come in.

I'm David Brancaccio. Stock Index futures are pointing to modestly higher markets this morning.

The 10-year interest rate is steady today, but it's the highest since late July.

The Fed meets later this week with a verdict on Thursday on how much to lower rates,

and we'll be keeping an eye on currency markets

tonight. Marketplace's Nova Saffo reports. Volatility and currency trading jumped a week ago and has

continued to heat up. Traders are honing in on three currency trades against the dollar,

the euro, Mexico's peso, and China's yuan. Options contracts help traders hedge risk, and that's where Reuters

is reporting a lot of activity right now. It says volatility in euro-dollar options spiked to the

highest level since the 2016 election. That's because depending on who wins the White House, there are

diverging scenarios and implications with regards to global trade, the direction of

inflation, and interest rates. Big moves in currency markets can affect the costs of imports

and exports, not to mention they can make traveling to other countries more or less expensive.

I'm Novosha for Marketplace. Dow futures are up 2 tenths percent now. S&P futures are up 3 tenths percent. Now, the Dow Jones

industrial average is the gauge people mean when they ask, how's the market? But it's not a law

of physics. The Dow is a kind of sculpture molded and chiseled by humans in rough image of the

economy. Periodically, companies get kicked out. This week,

the artificial intelligence and graphics microchip company, NVIDIA, replaces rival Intel. And

Dow Chemical is out with Sherman Williams of paint fame going in. Marketplaces Savannah Peters has the

thinking here. The Dow is made up of 30 companies at a time, and the committee that decides on

that list tries to represent key parts of today's economy. So in the case of artificial

intelligence leader, Nvidia, taking Intel's place, basically they're swapping the new market

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