Mexico City: Mexico is preparing a contingency plan for an "adverse" election result in the United States, according to the country's Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens.

Mr Carstens, who has previously stated that a victory for Donald Trump would hit his country like a hurricane, said the plan was a sensible precaution.

"If the adverse situation materialises, it's foreseeable that the Mexican authorities respond in some way," he told Milenio television. "It's a contingency plan that we're discussing with the finance ministry – we hope we don't have to use it."

Mr Carstens did not provide details of the contingency plan.