Investors heaved a sigh of relief at the end of the weekend as centrist Emmanuel Macron won the first round of voting in the French presidential election on Sunday.
Macron will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the final voting on 7 May.
Following the Sunday vote, the euro jumped the most in a month and the yen retreated. US stock-index futures and Japanese shares also rose.
Jordan Rochester, a foreign exchange strategist at Nomura Holdings Inc, said that the market “will likely fully price in the outcome of the second round today in favor of Mr Macron”, adding that Macron as the next president of France “should be positive for the French economy and for broader European economic stability”.
Chris Weston, chief market strategist at IG Ltd, said he expects the CAC 40 Index to open about 140 points higher when trading begins in Paris, signaling gains of almost 3 percent. “There’s going to be some relief coming through.”
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