{"id":142718,"date":"2016-11-09T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T07:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=142718"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:07:20","slug":"donald-trump-is-the-new-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/142718\/donald-trump-is-the-new-president-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is the new president of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has pulled off a surprise victory in the 2016 United States presidential election, and is set to become the new US president on 20 January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won many key swing states, including Florida, which many saw as the state which would determine the election outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Many experts and media houses predicted an easy win for Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton, but Republican Party hopefuls warned that these polls were misleading.<\/p>\n<p>A Trump presidency is not good news for South Africa. Global investment firm Nomura said a Trump win spells uncertainty for markets linked to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans also won the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>With a lot of uncertainty, a Trump presidency could see South Africa become a negative trade market as investors move to \u201csafe\u201d markets.<\/p>\n<p>The rand has already weakened significantly after it emerged that Trump was likely to be the winner of the presidential race \u2013 showing investor uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinton campaign has conceded to the loss, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The rand traded at R13.52 against the dollar, down 2.62%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read this: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/142704\/rand-crumbles-as-trump-victory-in-the-us-looks-more-likely\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rand crumbles as Trump victory looks more likely<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has pulled off a surprise victory in the 2016 United States presidential election, and is set to become the new US president on 20 January 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":142720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-142718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142728,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142718\/revisions\/142728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}