Markets mostly rose on Thursday.
The S&P 500 rose 0.8 percent and the STOXX Europe 600 rose 0.2 percent. Asian stocks were little-changed though.
US stocks were boosted by some better-than-expected corporate earnings reports as well as comments by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that a tax bill is likely to be unveiled very soon.
European stocks were boosted by a 1.5 percent jump in the CAC 40 after a poll showed centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron coming out ahead of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France's presidential election.
With markets becoming increasingly focused on political developments, Boris Schlossberg, managing director of foreign exchange strategy at BK Asset Management, said on CNBC on Wednesday that “all trades are purely political” and “all economic data is irrelevant”.
Schlossberg added that if the Trump administration fails to get tax reform and infrastructure spending done in the summertime, then “a huge part of the 'Trump rally' just simply dies on the vine”.
Schlossberg also said that the progress of far-right and far-left candidates to the next round in the French presidential election would be the “absolute worst-case scenario for the market”.
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