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Don Luskin of Trend Macrolytics writes in a note to clients today:

"There have been highly volatile days as the presidential election landscape has chaotically emerged. But stocks have been in a less than 14% trading range despite what remains a maximally uncertain outcome poised at 50/50 in the polls, the prediction markets and the models – with both candidates continually improvising ill-considered economic policy proposals. With stocks at all-time highs as Trump’s polling has recently improved, it may be that markets are signaling a slight preference for Trumponomics. House control is 50/50, also. If Senate control were 50/50, the joint probability of one-party control of government by either party would be 25%."

But Mr. Luskin argues that Senate control isn’t 50/50. In his view Republican Senate control is now assured “with West Virginia and Montana in the bag.” He writes:

"The joint probability of one-party control remains 25%, but it can only be by Republicans. That opens the possibility for the extension of expiring provisions of the 2017 tax cuts. But there remains a 75% probability of gridlock, pointing to general stability of economic policy no matter who wins the presidency."