Unlike the buoyant U.S. stock market, the dollar is sinking fast. The value of the greenback just hit a four-year low, according to the ICE U.S. Dollar Index, the Intercontinental Exchange's measure ...

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You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. It’s been a couple of weeks since Donald Trump and his cohort tried to bully the U.S.’s European allies into ...

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Fallout from the recent Greenland crisis clipped the U.S. dollar, aggravating a year-long decline that has shaved more than 10 percent off the greenback’s value since President Donald Trump returned ...

President Trump’s disclosure Tuesday that he was pleased with a weaker dollar should in theory not matter. His preferences are well-known and words shouldn’t move markets unless backed by action. In ...

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Ignorance of sacred Scriptures is ignorance of Jesus Christ, Pope Leo XIV said during his weekly general audience. "The ultimate purpose of reading and meditating on the Scriptures," he said Feb. 11, ...

China is seizing an opportunity to challenge American dominance in global finance and exert greater international influence at the expense of the all-powerful US dollar. Geopolitical uncertainty – ...

“CONFIDENCE, ESPECIALLY international confidence, is a fragile flower,” warned William Treiber, a long-serving Federal Reserve official, to colleagues on the central bank’s rate-setting committee in ...

After a dramatic 2025, when US President Donald Trump's tariff announcements sent the dollar tumbling, traders of the currency were expecting a quieter year. Recent weeks have shattered that ...