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12 Mar 2025

The US dollar is off to its worst start of the year in decades.

Source: The Daily Shot

21 Jan 2025

He's back. Get used to the roller coaster!

source : bloomberg

9 Jan 2025

Dollar's Share Of Global Reserves Hits 30-Year-Low As CentralBanks Pile Into Gold

Source: Wolfstreet.com

8 Jan 2025

U.S. Dollar vs. World Currencies in 2024

Source: Barchart, Visual Capitalist, Voronoi

7 Jan 2025

BREAKING: The dollar dropped and stocks surge after the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump’s aides are exploring tariffs that would apply to every country, but only cover critical imports

See the kink to our 10 surprises 2025 (surprise #1: Trump 2.1 "(...) What if concerns over the inflationary effects of tariffs prompt him to pivot, adopting a more conciliatory approach with trading partners—a shift from Trump 2.0 to Trump 2.1): https://lnkd.in/eKXRsc58 Source: MenthorQ, Bloomberg

6 Jan 2025

BREAKING: The Canadian dollar is flying after reports that Prime Minister Trudeau is to announce resignation as early as Monday

Source: Reuters, Bloomberg

2 Jan 2025

USDollar is now the most overvalued in history according to Bank of America.

Bank of America uses a "behavioral equilibrium exchange model (BEER)", an economic concept used to estimate the equilibrium exchange rate of a currency based on fundamental macroeconomic factors and behavioral relationships. BEER models derive the equilibrium exchange rate from observable economic fundamentals such as Terms of trade, Productivity differentials, Net foreign assets, Interest rate differentials and Trade balances Source: Barchart

2 Jan 2025

This is EM currency performance versus the Dollar in 2024. The 3 worst performers are: (i) Argentina's Peso; (ii) Brazil's Real; (iii) Russia's Ruble.

Source: Bloomberg, Robin Brooks

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