Dollar Softens as Trade War Fatigue Sets In OANDA MarketBeat

September 18, 2018 Share Print 0

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Alfonso Esparza reviews the major upcoming market news, macro analysis and economic indicator releases that will impact currencies, stocks other asset classes.

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The dollar bounced back on Friday, after a couple of economic indicator misses last week, the greenback ended higher against all major pairs but was back under pressure on Monday.

A slowdown in the pace of inflation, miss in retail sales expectations and a softer tone on trade from the Trump administration are the three major factors for the softness of the currency.

Interest Rate differentials are a positive factor for the the US Dollar but haven’t done enough to counter the trade war fatigue setting in.

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Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse

Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency
trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.