Global financial markets dive after poll puts Trump ahead

With less than one week to go until Election Day, a national poll showing Donald Trump with a narrow lead over Hillary Clinton sent global financial markets tumbling Wednesday, as both candidates focused on scrapping for votes in battleground states. Major European stock markets opened lower in the wake of a dip Tuesday on Wall Street (down 0.7 percent), followed by plunges in Tokyo (-1.76 percent) and Hong Kong (-1.45 percent) on fears that the maverick billionaire could win the White House. "I