On 07 May 2017, Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election by 66% of the vote, more than polls had predicted. In this report CLS assess whether the two rounds of the French presidential elections had a significant impact on the foreign exchange (FX) spot market, using data published by CLS on Quandl, an on-line…
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Leading Australia-based retail forex broker Pepperstone has announced a series of margin / leverage changes for its trading clients, which will take effect later this week ahead of next Sunday's second round of voting to select a new President in France. According to Pepperstone, the election will be a major test for the European Union…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has announced that it will be raising margin requirements on client accounts over the weekend of the second round of the French Presidential election. While in normal markets most major currency pairs can be traded at Saxo Bank with leverage of 100x (or a 1% margin requirement), next…
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The following is based on research from Peter Rosenstreich, Head of Market Strategy at Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN). If the current French Presidential exit polls are correct, then they are showing a very market-friendly result. The failure of Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Melenchon to surge on voting day should be viewed as a vote for…
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This article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Regional German Director at FCA regulated broker Admiral Markets UK. Hello, Remember the polls before the US presidential elections? All the polling and news stations, major political and economic figures, possibly even Trump himself, were sure that Hillary Clinton will take the crown. Well, we all know how…
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LeapRate has learned that a number of leading retail forex brokers are altering trading conditions in advance of this Sunday's French elections. The first round of polling is not expected to elect a new President, with the expected final runoff between the two top vote-getting candidates set to take place two weeks later, on Sunday…
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The major question is who, between Francois Fillon and Emmanuel Macron, will be racing against Le Pen?
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This article was written by Jameel Ahmad, VP of Corporate Development and Market Research at FXTM. Unless one candidate can garner more than 50% of the vote in the first round of elections, French voters will go to the polls twice to elect their new leader. The two candidates that score the most votes will go head…
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