The Dollar Refuses to Die — Much to Everyone’s Annoyance
For most of the year, shorting the dollar has been the foreign-exchange world’s favourite pastime. In a $9.6 trillion-a-day market, that’s no small hobby. Yet...
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China’s Gold Play: How Bullion Helps Beijing Needle Trump—and the Dollar
The blistering rally in gold is nudging China a little closer to its long-stated ambition: a world less tethered to US-centred finance.Beijing has been stockpiling...
The Euro Finds Its Voice as the Dollar Trips Over the Fed
The euro has scaled its highest level in four years, brushing $1.1878 on Tuesday, as traders braced for the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited rate cuts. This...
Beijing’s Silent Symphony: Undermining the Dollar, One Bond at a Time
While Washington busies itself with tax theatrics and tariff tantrums under Trump 2.0, Beijing is quietly tuning its instruments for a more strategic performance: the...
The Euro Rallie and the ECB Quietly Panics
European Central Bank officials are beginning—reluctantly—to voice concern that the euro’s rapid appreciation may well derail their carefully choreographed attempt to anchor inflation at that...
The Dollar Falls Victim to Political Delusion
The euro is on track to chalk up its longest winning streak in eight years, buoyed by growing confidence in the euro zone’s economic outlook...
The Dollar’s Slow Death: How Trump Is Playing with the World’s Reserve Currency
If global investors needed a barometer of their growing disillusionment with President Donald Trump’s economic crusade, they have it: the US dollar. Since Trump’s return...
Trump’s Trade War and the Dollar, a moment of history?
In a plot twist worthy of a financial soap opera, the US dollar—once the shining beacon of global stability—is starting to look suspiciously like another...
Trump’s Tariffs: is it the end of the King dollar?
As President Donald Trump proudly imposes the highest tariffs in over a century, a more delicate debate simmers beneath the surface: Is the US dollar...