Plenty of politics in the early part of the forex week

French election, of course,

  • French election results, official counts coming now
  • Macron wins French election - EUR higher (early price indications)
  • French election results - Le Pen concedes defeat

And, in Germany -

An election in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein:

  • Chancellor Merkel's conservative party won, her Christian Democrats on 33-odd % of the vote (initial result)
  • The Social Democrats had been in power, but only won 26.5%

Polls had been predicting a much tighter result, so an outperformance by Merkel's party here

And, while your here, rates update: