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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent

‘The damage is done’: Trump’s tariffs put the dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy

Someone counts out a stack of $20 bills at a currency exchange
The US dollar has been used as the global reserve currency ever since the end of the second world war. Photograph: José Luis González/Reuters

Amid the global fallout from Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement, it appears nowhere is safe. Crashing share prices, a sell-off in bonds and currency chaos erasing trillions of dollars of wealth in a matter of days.

On Friday, the dollar fell by more than 1% relative to a basket of other currencies to reach its lowest level in three years, compounding an almost 10% slide since the start of the year. In the space of a week, it has lost about 3 cents against the pound and 4 cents against the euro.

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