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Ditching the dollar

Global investors are giving US dollar assets a wide birth right now. Isa this the start of a significant slide. What happens when they choose to trade more in other currencies?

There’s been a lot of talk lately about de-dollarisation. In other words, global investors are parking less of their money in US dollars (in the form of US treasuries/bonds). What was once considered a safe choice, is now seen as having more risk, and that’s being accentuated right now by the falling value of the US dollar. If, as an overseas investor, …

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