Today, March the 15th 2017 offers a busy economic and political calendar.

In the Eurozone, investors look forward to the Dutch elections, while in the US, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce an interest rate hike at its monetary policy meeting.

March the 15th correspond to the Ides of March on the Roman calendar. A date that marked the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

More than 2000 years after Caesar’s death a couple of events are in stake on this precise same day of the year.

Attention is turning instead to whether the Fed will signal an even faster pace of monetary tightening this year than the current three rate hikes that it projected at the December policy meeting.

In Netherlands, Prime Minister Mark Rutte's right-wing VVD party was leading in polls ahead of the Dutch vote, with the anti-Islam Party for Freedom of firebrand lawmaker Geert Wilders a close second.


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