Based on last week’s late glut of data, as well as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish comments, the threat of inflation is very real in the US economy. That helped explain the US dollar’s strong Friday performance, but markets are forced to carry on their balancing act between structural dollar weaknesses and the possibility of higher interest rates.
EUR/USD: the past year
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