When will King Dollar fall?

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TD Securities with the note. I don’t agree with them. DXY is not going to fall as the US recession gathers steam. That promotes the flight to safety. Moreover, it presents China and Europe as the victims of a follow-on trade shock that will drag them down shortly afterward. Indeed, I am still quite concerned that the entire Fed tightening cycle ends in a China crisis that crashes the CNY. 

In short, DXY is king at least until the Fed flips and perhaps until US growth bottoms.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.