Ramping up the US dollar
The dollar has recently risen to the target levels that we’ve held for some months, such as parity against the euro.
The dollar has recently risen to the target levels that we’ve held for some months, such as parity against the euro.
The US dollar has been rising sharply and that’s exacerbating already high global inflation as costs rise for dollar-invoiced imports while increasing debt costs...
The gold market is stumbling into this weekend once more after suffering an almost 4% decline as a result of the sell-off in gold. Will gold prices drop next week?
Central bankers continue to claim that inflation can be tamed without causing recessions.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that central bankers and finance ministers wanted weak currencies.
US CPI inflation might be similar to levels in the euro zone or the UK, but there’s little doubt from the recent spate of policy meetings that it will go harder and...
The slump in the US stock market, as well as the expiration of futures contracts in June and the reorganization of international ETFs, will have a negative influence on...
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in May 2022, Professor Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, the American economist and public policy analyst, told Bloomberg that the rising...
Last week, we spoke about whether there is a case to be made for intervention now, or in the future, to weaken the dollar.
Unsurprisingly, the surge in inflation in developed countries has led to accusations that central banks have been asleep at the wheel.
Political and economic changes across the globe are beginning to challenge the dominant world currency and are now posing a threat to the once pivotal role of the US...
Inflation in the United States appears to have peaked, prompting the Federal Reserve to be cautious in raising interest rates, easing downward pressure on gold prices...
Major central banks have two main avenues to tighten financial conditions: higher rates and quantitative tightening.
Major central banks are pushing on with rate hikes and, from what we’ve already been told, the likes of the Fed, BoE and ECB will be unveiling new or further hikes in...
Many financial analysts doubt if there is any intervention to stop the US dollar from rising.
Speaking to Customs News, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ngo Tri Long, former director of the Price and Market Research Institute (Ministry of Finance), said that the foreign exchange...
The FED suggested that, after two rate hikes this year, it would continue to raise rates in the coming months to keep inflation under control.
Most central banks want workers to keep wage demands down so that their economies do not enter a dangerous wage/price spiral. But there are already plenty of signs that...
The dollar looks set to stay at the front of the G10 currency pack as other countries, particularly in Europe, struggle with stagflation risks and the Fed pushes on with...
The Bloomberg investment-grade bond index and the MSCI global stock index are both down significantly. Will it slow the tightening of policy?
After two years of ultra-easy policy to sustain the economy hit severely by COVID-19, the FED became more hawkish. This had a significant impact on the Vietnamese and...
The Federal Reserve (FED) is massively behind the curve given the surge in inflation, and now it is in the process of catching up. This is, however, unlikely to go as...