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Droopy dollar prompts a rethink

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The apparent fondness for a weaker dollar among US administration officials has been enough to prompt HSBC's David Bloom to rip up his forecasts. But he tells Katie Martin that this is no currency war. In fact, currencies are on a path to peace and harmony. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Financial Times foreign exchange correspondent Roger Blitz talks to experts on the currencies market about the week ahead, looking at the global political and economic factors driving the world’s largest market.

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