LONDON, April 11 — The euro looked set to snap a seven-day losing streak versus the dollar on Monday, as the single currency rallied after French leader Emmanuel Macron beat far right challenger Marine Le Pen in the country’s first round of presidential voting.
Macron will face Le Pen in what promises to be a tightly fought French presidential election runoff on April 24. The dollar index - which tracks the greenback against a basket of six peers - was broadly flat on the day, just shy of the 100 mark hit last week for the first time in nearly two years.=USDRead full story
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