Australian Dollar
The narrative that the US can tolerate much higher interest rates, compared to the rest of the world has helped the dollar in 2022. In this report, we examine the sustainability of this thesis, from our holistic assessment of global growth indicators.
In this report, we identify 5 key signposts that will mark a turn in the dollar. These include technical conditions, foreign real interest rates, US (and global) yield curves, Chinese economic conditions and geopolitics. We then assess whether it is time to short the dollar.
A country’s external balance remains one of the key pillars of the longer-term trend for the exchange rate. In this week’s report, we look at the developments in global basic balances, and their implications for currency strategy.