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U.S. stock futures are rising Sunday evening after exit polls for Germany’s election indicate a win for the conservative Christian Democrat Union in parliament and point to Friedrich Merz as the likely next chancellor. It remains to be seen how fast Merz can cobble together a government and with whom. The hard-right Alternative for Germany has come in second place, according to exit polls, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democratic Party trails both.