Articles Archive for April 2017
Currencies, French News »
What’s been happening? The euro was Monday’s currency winner, recording (and holding) notable gains against the majors thanks to the outcome of Sunday’s first round of voting in the French election. With one of the anti-EU candidates, left-wing Jean-Luc Melenchon, out of the running, the odds of a ‘Frexit’ were reduced, and demand for the [...]
article 50, Brexit, Currencies, sterling »
In a somewhat surprise move, Prime Minister Theresa May has this morning confirmed she wants to hold a snap General Election on 8th of June. Although Downing Street had initially dismissed any early election talk less than a month ago, Mrs May has said that she had ‘only recently and reluctantly’ come to this decision [...]
French News, French Riviera Information »
The residential property market in France is showing signs of heating up, according to an article in le Monde from last week (29 March). After the record number of 845,000 property transactions in 2016, sales are continuing to rise in the first months of 2017. While property prices in Paris and Bordeaux have risen by [...]