David Zahn: Populism remains key consideration for French election

But Macron looks likely winner

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With a little over a fortnight until the first round of voting in the French presidential elections, David Zahn offers his assessment of how markets might react to the success of various candidates 

Despite the failure of the anti-immigration, anti-European Union (EU) party to make significant inroads in the recent Dutch elections, it would be unwise to discount completely the influence of populism in upcoming European elections. There are certainly many similarities between Marine Le Pen's National Front in France and Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. In the wake of Wilders's loss in the Dutch elections, however - which markets broadly welcomed - investors should remain wary of the sort of complacency that was prevalent around the UK's Brexit vote and the US pres...

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