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  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Hedge funds ditch bearish dollar bets as US ‘exceptionalism’ fuels rally

    Currency has climbed nearly 3% this year, handing losses to speculators positioned for a decline

    $100 bill and lines of a graph
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Emerging market investing
    Kenya seizes on bond market thaw to issue new US dollar debt

    Nairobi plans to refinance part of a $2bn repayment due in June that was expected to strain public finances

    The Sun sets over Nairobi, Kenya
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Gold
    Gold price hits all-time high as traders bet on rate cuts

    Recent fall in the dollar has added fresh impetus to metal’s year-long rally

    Stacked gold bars
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    US interest rates
    Dollar hits 3-month low after Fed official signals rates may start to fall

    Investors betting central bank likely to cut borrowing costs by May next year

    Christopher Waller
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Investors dump dollar in bet that US rates have peaked

    Asset managers sell greenback at fastest pace in a year as market prices in more rate cuts next year

    Dollar bills
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    Rachman Review podcast25 min listen
    The global power of the dollar

    How effective are US financial sanctions in taming Hamas or the Putin regime?

  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Financial fraud
    Hedge fund co-founder Neil Phillips convicted over forex manipulation

    Prosecutors alleged manager of Glen Point Capital had attempted to artificially move dollar-rand exchange rate

    South African rand coins
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Euro
    JPMorgan and Citi expect euro to fall to parity with US dollar

    Wall Street banks forecast rising energy prices and flagging eurozone growth to drag down single currency

    A montage of euro and dollar coins
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
    The dollar has joined the commodity currency club

    A change in the greenback’s historical relationship with oil is increasingly rippling through economies and markets

    Montage of a $1 bill set in front of a US flag
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Unhedged podcast13 min listen
    The strong US dollar gets stronger

    The dollar is increasing in value. How will it affect global markets?

  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Pound Sterling
    Sterling heads for worst month since Truss’s mini-Budget

    British pound declines as traders shift interest rate expectations

    The Bank of England in London
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Foreign exchange
    China and Japan push back against dollar strength

    People’s Bank of China sets renminbi trading band higher than expected while Tokyo warns against yen’s decline

    A hand holding $100 bills
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    China boosts housing market and renminbi support

    Cheaper mortgages offered in biggest cities while central bank eases foreign exchange reserve requirements

    Hundred yuan note on a pile of US dollars
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Markets InsightEduardo Levy Yeyati
    Argentina should beware the dollarisation fairy

    Impracticable and costly, such a currency shift would not be much more than a convenient sleight of hand

    Libertarian hopeful Javier Milei is ranked first in the country’s primary elections
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The fundamental reason China will struggle to dethrone the dollar

    Making a currency a global standard demands deep trust in its issuer’s openness and reliability

  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    The rise of the middle powers
    China capitalises on US sanctions in fight to dethrone dollar

    Beijing uses developing world chagrin over Washington’s weaponisation of greenback to push global renminbi

    A montage of a globe, with its spherical object replaced by China’s national emblem, impressed on  renminbi and dollar bills and a world map illustration
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Lex
    Brics: the mighty dollar is secure for now Premium content

    But the US should not be complacent about the greenback’s primacy

    A foreign currency dealer exchanges US dollars
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    Dollar primacy and the web of global responsibilities

    Complacency or imperiousness about the dollar’s role would be seriously misguided

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Russia targets western companies

    Currency watchers are worried about a weaker US dollar

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Wall Street banks ditch bullish dollar bets over ‘soft landing’ hopes

    Analysts forecast ‘more where that came from’ after currency is dented by slowing US inflation

    Montage of a road sign for Wall Street,  a US dollar coin and the logo of the Federal Reserve
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Foreign exchange
    Beware a Chinese ‘dollar avalanche’

    Companies have been hoarding greenbacks

  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    Currencies
    US dollar to maintain dominance over next decade, say central banks

    OMFIF survey points to only ‘gradual’ decline in dollar’s share of global reserves, despite calls for alternatives

    Dollar bank notes
  • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey unwinds measures designed to increase lira holdings

    Central bank calls move ‘first step’ towards a more conventional monetary policy

    People wait to exchange money in Istanbul
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Yellen defends dollar as Brics nations debate reserve status

    South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa says greenback’s dominance is ‘on the agenda’ for Brics meeting

    Janet Yellen
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    The stark ‘de-risking’ choice facing economies

    Nations must seek to strengthen multilateralism or they will end up embracing economic decoupling

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