Trump Now Says Strong Dollar Is Good, Yet Markets Beg to Differ

  • Surging greenback wreaked havoc in financial markets in March
  • Trump’s comment reverses previous calls for a weaker dollar
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Just weeks after a surging dollar was causing havoc in world financial markets, President Donald Trump has decided that a muscular U.S. currency is a good thing after all.

“The dollar is very strong,” he told a press conference on Friday. “And dollars -- strong dollars are overall very good.”