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                • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
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                  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

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                • 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
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                  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

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                • 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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                • Friday, 19 May, 2023
                  On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley
                  The dollars are not fragile

                  The world thinks of treasuries as assets and no other country has been able to produce more sovereign debt than the US

                • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
                  Global Economy
                  BRICcoin doesn’t stand up

                  An imagined dollar-slayer isn’t super solid

                • Monday, 1 May, 2023
                  Lex
                  De-dollarisation: oil market is a slippery slope for anti-dollar crowd to climb Premium content

                  Central banks are buying gold to replace dollars in reserves at the fastest pace on postwar record

                  Dollar-denominated private sector trade is also potentially vulnerable to US sanctions
                • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
                  Druckenmiller takes aim at dollar in sole conviction trade

                  Billionaire investor says last year’s dollar rally was the ‘biggest miss’ of his career

                • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
                  Ruchir Sharma
                  What strong gold says about the weak dollar

                  The US has been weaponising its currency — but that comes with a cost

                  Gold bars sit stacked
                • Friday, 21 April, 2023
                  Global Economy
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                  Turn that frown upside down

                • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
                  The FT ViewThe editorial board
                  Threats to the dollar’s dominance are overblown

                  There are no viable alternatives to the greenback, but the US must avoid self-harm

                • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
                  Dollar :-(

                  The greenback might now account for less than half of global reserves

                • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
                  Investors bet US dollar has further to fall

                  Improving European growth and potential US recession expected to put pressure on greenback

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