Im Francine Lacqua in london. Quickly, a check on data. This is where a lot of the story is. I think is probably one of the most significant trades entitys session in todays session. Europound. To touch yesterday. The pound strengthening a touch yesterday. Notable for the fed. We get onto the french president ial election this sunday. Lets get to first word news. U. S. Nordisk in the President Trump has tweeted the government needs a good shot down in september after Congress Agrees a budget deal that denies him his wish list. It includes no money for his although iter wall, is full funding for planned parenthood. Democrats call his threat to shut down the government after a successful bipartisan deal sour and shameful. Fell after reporting slumping iphone sales. 50. 8 milliont sold phones in the First Quarter. It highlights the need for apple to deliver blockbuster new features in the next addition of this device defend off samsung. Were seeing what we believe to be a pause in purchas
Be the youngest president since napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. He wants to shake up french politics. He wants to bring together he says a Coalition Of The Willing which he said would be able to reform france. And he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is up union. He is the favourite but he is up againsta union. He is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, Marine Le Pen of the Front National, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten. She was voting in the north where she has been a regional councillor. She has a very different vision. She would restore the borders of france. She would limit immigration, she would bring back the frank, she would give the french people a membership on their European Union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she is the only defender of french workers and french factories against
Never even contested an election before this year. It really has been an astonishing year in french politics. Emmanuel macron, the young, fresh phrased, road business, ardent european. About to be inaugurated pro business. He trounced his rivals in the elections, a resounding vote in support of a man who only set up his en marche party about a year ago. We are already hearing, by the way, just you know, just to let you know, that we will expect him to appoint his Prime Minister to morrow. We have heard that in the last few minutes. The Prime Minister will be appointed tomorrow and the government will be formed on tuesday. That is what sources close to Emmanuel Macron are telling us. That is the scene there in Central Paris, as we await the formalities of the inauguration and, of course, the french do these things with wonderful and grandeur and lets go to my colleague who was there watching it all unfold. A rather drizzly morning there in paris, we can tell from your umbrella 7 drizzly