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It's Friday, November 22nd.

I'm Tracy Hunt for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

Republicans are feeling a lot perkier about the economy now that Donald Trump is on his way to the White House. Democrats, less so. According to data released today by the University of Michigan,

the index of consumer sentiment in Republican households climbed more than 15 points in November. In

Democratic households, the same index fell by more than 10 points. This release is the first that

includes surveys conducted after Election Day. WSJ economics reporter Harriet Tori joins us now.

So Harriet, obviously Republicans are happy that their candidate won the presidential

election, but why would that translate to consumers feeling more positively about current economic

conditions? That's something that economists have been asking themselves for a long time.

There is this general sense that if your party won the White House, you will tend to feel a little bit better

about the way things are in the country and the trajectory of the economy. And we really see that

in this University of Michigan survey for consumer expectations. So we have seen these big swings

in how people feel about the economy and feel about how their personal prospects are looking in the

months and years ahead. Even though sentiment for Republicans was up, it still remained higher

among Democrats and Republicans. What would account for that? Around half of the surveys were done

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