More than 80 countries – more than half the world’s population – are voting this year in elections that could be pivotal for democracy
The once invincible dollar was still reeling on Tuesday after more macro evidence that the U.S. exceptionalism narrative may be fading. The big test comes on Friday with monthly payrolls figures, but a jobs market reading later today could also deal the dollar a blow in the form of the JOLTS report - a favourite of former Fed Chair Janet Yellen - which is forecast to show job openings sinking to deeper three-year lows. Not so the bond market, where yields are firmly lower.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, cash-straitened social programs and the long shadow of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.