Second US presidential debate: Trump improves performance, halts risk rally in FX

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2nd US presidential debate of the 2016 general election.

In what has become the most embarrassing US election in history, the candidates, rather that exchanging a vision for the country's future, engaged vast amouts of time into personal retaliatory comments.

When asked about the obscene tape comments on women, leaked over the weekend, Trump played down the scandal by noting that his remarks were just "locker room talk." Clinton called Trump's comments 'abussive', adding "I never questioned the fitness of my opponents," she said, but adding "Donald Trump is different."

Trump then threatened Clinton on appointing a special prosecutor as president to investigate her emails' case, adding that she would be facing jail time. However, one of the main highlights during the early stages came right after when Clinton decided to repeate Michelle Obama's words, "when they go low, we go high."

Afterwards, the candidates engaged in questions with regards to Clinton's emails (got a fair amount of time and that played in favour of Trump), the economy, the fight against ISIS, how to go about the medical system in the country, the controversial debate about muslims, etc.

At the end, however, the market perceived the debate as much more even than the first time around, and judging by the behaviour of the Mexican Peso, which has become one of the main barometers to assess how well Trump performed in the debate, it seems fair to conclude that Trump did a better job today. Meanwhile, Clinton remained calm and presidential as the first debate, thus no demerits from her side were behind Trump's improved debate.