published Sep 25, 2017, 3:01:00 PM, by Luke Kawa and Liz Capo McCormick (Bloomberg) —For global financial markets, politics are back at the fore. Look no further than the foreign exchange market, where the New Zealand kiwi and the euro were battered after weekend elections delivered unexpected results and the

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