Emmanuel Macron

President Donald Trump has made America, for the first time since the Vietnam war, grate again — grating the nerves of the rest of the free world. The Pew Research Center published a study showing that the world’s view of the United States has plunged from 64 percent favorability to 49...

The eyes of the world will be turned toward Paris on Thursday when President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron square off for The Handshake: Part Deux. The two leaders engaged in a white-knuckle, teeth-gritting “death grip” instigated mainly by Macron during a May 25...

A clear victory for the centrists in France and the stunning loss of a legislative majority by the right in Britain begs the question: Is there a backlash to the populism that put President Donald Trump in power and influences politics through much of the democratic world? In a word, maybe. It does...

With political risk muted, at least for the moment, and European stocks looking attractively valued relative to their U.S. counterparts, investors have multiple reasons to consider the region's equities and exchange traded funds such as the SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSE: FEZ). The Importance Of...

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 first round of France's national election is over to the delight of investors. Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen will move on to the second round of voting in early May. Here is a summary of what analysts are saying about the election results and the surge in...

The markets are reading centrist Emmanuel Macron’s lead in the first round of voting in the French presidential election as a victory after a potential face-off between hard-left and hard-right candidates was avoided Sunday. Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker and French government...

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,...