SPEZET, France -Strolling around a small town in northwestern France, beaming to crowds shouting Macron President!, Emmanuel Macron sought to revive a lacklustre campaign whose increasingly uncertain.
France's country-specific exchange traded fund plunged Tuesday, lagging behind European markets, as investors suddenly began to scrutinize the political risks in the upcoming presidential elections carefully.
Strolling around a small town in northwestern France, beaming to crowds shouting "Macron President!," Emmanuel Macron sought to revive a lackluster campaign whose increasingly uncertain outcome rattled markets on Tuesday. Macron is still ahead in opinion polls but his far-right, euroskeptic rival Marine Le Pen has been closing the gap, and a poll on Monday put victory within the margin of error, unnerving investors ahead of Sunday's first round.
Barclays, a British bank, estimates that it will suffer a loss of nearly $600 million after it issued securities that exceeded the amount registered in the United States by about $15 billion.