Well, it’s Sunday which means French voters are going to the polls to decide whether they want to do their part to help facilitate the end of Western Democracy as we know it. Here’s one voter who knows what she wants in that regard:

Thanks Marine. Now if only you could convince the skeptics among us that this isn’t all a show and that you aren’t simply going to revert to being your father if elected.

Well as we noted on Saturday, the ECB is preparing for the worst (although they don’t expect it) and the SNB has indicated its willingness to step into FX markets if some “adverse” outcome triggers EUR/CHF chaos.

So far:

Macron 24% and Le Pen 22% so far, with 4 hours to go, according to Belgian TV exit polls in France. https://t.co/wim8RxGvnT

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) April 23, 2017

Although the French election isn’t the only possible market moving event for the trading week that will be, “it’s hard to see it as a non-event in the short- or medium-term,” Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow writes in his week ahead preview excerpted below.

Via Bloomberg

It was the kind of week where China released a set of really good numbers, including retail sales, industrial production and GDP and the Shanghai Composite sold off over 2%. Perhaps understandable in a world where the major economic debate currently trending is whether “hard” or “soft” data is what we should be paying attention to.