Welcome to our exchanges at Goldman Sachs Markets Update for Friday, November 6th.

Each week we check them with the leader across the firm to get a quick take on what they're watching in markets.

It's been a particularly busy week here as... to get a quick take on what they're watching in markets.

It's been a particularly busy week here

as we've spent the week awaiting the final outcome

of the US election.

I'm Jake Stewart, global head of corporate communications

here at the firm.

And my guest to discuss all this today

is the Shroke Varadon Global Cohead of our Global Markets Division.

Ashok, welcome, thanks for joining us.

Thanks Jake.

It feels like the last time we did this was at the onset of COVID. And even though it was six months ago,

it felt like it was four years ago.

So, you know, 2020 has been that type of year.

Has been that type of year.

How markets reacted this week from election day

to where we are today right now Friday morning.

Yeah, so I would say that, you know, the best way that I could characterize the reaction

from markets has been relief. Really, I would say leading up into the election, you know, October was not a great month for markets.

The last week in October was the worst week that global equity markets put in in the prior seven months and I think there was some real

sort of apprehension around the election. I think people wanted to take their risk down ahead of

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