While the decisive American election mandate, which has seen Donald Trump being all but confirmed as President elect in the US, has strengthened political certainty within that country, it has heightened market volatility and uncertainty elsewhere, including among emerging economies, North West University Business School economist Professor Raymond Parsons has said. In commentary he shared on November 6, he said the pivotal and definitive outcome of the historic US elections for control of the White House and Congress had wide-ranging implications for the US economy, as well as the rest of the world.