French election

The outcome was already baked into French assets and the euro, but allegedly liberal France did an allegedly liberal thing by electing male socialist Emmanuel Macron over a female candidate as the next president of the eurozone's second-largest economy. Macron's Victory Over Le Pen The euro...

As is now widely known, the May 7 French runoff election will pit centrist Emmanuel Macron against far right candidate Marie Le Pen. Apparently, European assets and financial markets not only like this matchup, but are pricing in a Macron victory because French stocks and the related exchange...

Priceline Group Inc (NASDAQ: PCLN) soared to all-time highs Monday on a 2.6-percent spike, coincidentally timed with — or perhaps on the tailwind of — the history-shaping French election. With National Front candidate Marine Le Pen advocating a Brexit-like break from the European Union...

What do U.S. President Donald Trump and French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron have in common? Quite a bit, actually. Macron wants to slash state welfare benefits, while Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act could corrode the country’s Medicaid program. Macron wants...

The polls open for the first round of voting in France’s presidential election Sunday, and depending on who ultimately wins, the country could undergo as seismic a political shift as the U.S. did with the election of President Donald Trump. The leading candidates — Emmanuel Macron,...