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After 9 gigabytes of Macron-linked documents and emails were released on an anonymous pastebin website on Friday afternoon in what Macron's campaign said was a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack, France - fearing a similar response to what happened with Hillary Clinton after 35,000 John Podesta emails were released one month before the US presidential election - cracked down on the distribution of the files, warning on Saturday it would be a "criminal offense" to republish the data, and warning the French media not to publish content from any of the hacked emails "to prevent the outco

Forex is the most simple market in the world.  As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies - Forex is the underpinning of the world's financial system.  Although it is also the least understood market, there's nothing 'sophistocated' about FX.  Take a dollar, exchange it for a euro.  The rate changes - exchange it back.  Simple!  Trading money.

Authored by John Solomon via Circa.com,

During his final year in office, President Obama's team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents in the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.

Mark Cudmore, prolific Bloomberg markets commentator and former FX trader, asks a question that may validate all the work the ECB has put together in its "whatever it takes" effort of the past five years: is it time to stop worrying about the euro falling apart. For what it's worth, we believe the answer is a resounding no, for all the reasons anothr Bloomberg analyst, Richard Breslow, explained yesterday.

From Marc Cudmore's daily Macro View

A Macron Victory Should Seal Euro Narrative Shift: Macro View

 

Authored by Yves Manou via The Gatestone Institute,