THE DOLLAR is meant to be a source of safety. Lately, however, it has been a cause of fear. Since its peak in mid-January the greenback has fallen by over 9% against a basket of major currencies.

Demand for hedging against potential dollar declines has jumped to a five-year high as the Trump administration’s tariff policy threatens to sap US economic exceptionalism and undermine the ...

(Bloomberg) -- The dollar has emerged as the latest victim of this week’s market turmoil as a worsening global trade war risks derailing US economic growth. A Bloomberg gauge of the greenback ...