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Macron fails to convince four-fifths of French

Bloomberg Fewer than one-in-five French people approve of Emmanuel Macron’s performance since he became president 16 months ago, according to a poll published on Sunday. The survey of 1,013 adults by Kantar Sofres-onepoint for RTL, LCI and Le Figaro showed that 60 percent have a negative view of his presidency so far, with 19 percent holding a positive opinion. The ...

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Italy’s Salvini, Asselborn spar over migration

Bloomberg Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg’s minister for foreign affairs, are locked in a bitter war of words about European migration. The feud started at a Vienna conference. Salvini posted a video on his Facebook page of an exchange with Asselborn, who interrupted the Italian’s speech with a profanity after Salvini likened African immigrants to slaves. ...

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S&P 500 bends as trade war spectre re-emerges

Bloomberg Markets can ignore Wall Street when they want to. They’ve largely disregarded warnings from equity strategists at some of the biggest banks. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. this week cautioned about the dire effect of a full-blown trade war — fears stoked by news that President Donald Trump had instructed aides to impose additional tariffs ...

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