The dollar’s role as the primary reserve currency for the global economy allows the United States to borrow money more easily and impose painful financial sanctions. Other countries are ...

A surge in the "term premium" - compensation investors demand to hold longer-term debt - has also contributed to a nearly 11% ...

The US dollar's reserve currency status has seen gradual erosion for two decades, Eurizon strategists said. But last year, the pace of erosion was 10 times faster amid currency sanctions against ...

The dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency could come under threat in the long run from President Trump’s protectionist policies, Rabobank’s Jane Foley says in a note.

The dollar’s share in global foreign-exchange reserves slipped to its lowest level since the mid-1990s last year, giving fresh fuel to arguments that the greenback’s role as the top global ...

And in the foreign exchange market today, the U.S. dollar is on one side of almost 90% of all transactions. There has been much discussion about trying to create an alternative to the dollar.

The dollar’s role as the world’s primary reserve currency helps all of us Americans by keeping interest rates low. Foreign countries buy United States Treasury debt not just as an investment ...

Since 2008, the dollar’s share in the foreign-exchange reserves held by central banks has declined only marginally, from around 65 percent to 60 percent.Moreover, the three next most popular ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. dollar's share of foreign-exchange reserves rose in the fourth quarter, according to data from the International Monetary Fund released Wednesday. As a ...

Jack Dorsey’s claim belies the facts. The dollar is not only a global reserve currency, it is the dominant global reserve currency. In 2019, 62 percent of official government/central bank ...

Large increases in dollar reserves tend to come during periods of dollar weakness, not periods of dollar strength. That is for a simple reason: many export-heavy countries still intervene heavily ...

Dollars accounted for 62.9% of global foreign-exchange holdings in the fourth quarter, up from 62.3% in the third, according to IMF figures released on Tuesday. The share of euros held by central ...