Little over a century after the ink dried on the first US dollar printed by the Federal Reserve, its weaponisation as a tool for financial warfare and the expected reversal of the fastest interest rate hikes in four decades have raised the question of whether the greenback can maintain its dominance, an issue of potentially seismic importance for assets tracked by ETFs.
The mood music surrounding the dollar has soured in recent weeks following a 10% drop in its value versus a basket of other currencies since its peak last November, prompting hedge fund investor Stanley Druckenmiller – infamous for shorting sterling alongside George Soros in 1992 – to declare a US dollar short position his only high-conviction trade...
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