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The article analyses the impending presidential elections in France with reference to the major candidates and its effect on the French stock market. Topics include the unlikeliness of the winning of the anti-immigrant National Front candidate Marine Le Pen, expected win of Republican candidate François Fillon as explained by the analyst Charles Lichfield, and the possible benefitting of French domestic stocks under Fillon as put by Jean-Charles Mériaux, investment officer of DNCA Finance.

Presents a letter to the editor that mentions the reasons why the French and American revolutions were fought.

Reports on news and information regarding business developments in Europe. The move by three high-profile French companies to restrict shareholder voting rights; Plans by Vodafone AirTouch to sell Orange, the wireless firm it inherited in the Mannesmann merger; The breakdown in merger talks between Spain's Telefonica and Dutch Royal KPN.