Assessing French election risk for the euro

The upcoming French election continues to loom over euro-zone financial markets and the euro. We think it would take a worst case scenario in which France’s fiscal outlook worsens materially to generate a sustained fall in the euro. That is a plausible outcome, so risks are clearly skewed to the downside.

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