Dollar’s Year-End Strength to Give Way to Murky 2025
- The currency will climb into year-end, a Bloomberg poll shows
- Inflation, trade wars among top concerns for dollar next year
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The dollar is set to start 2025 on solid footing before facing risks such as faster inflation and a surging fiscal deficit over the coming year, according to the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey.
Heading into next year, 89 survey takers were split over the various risks that could hurt the dollar the most. Deficit worries garnered the largest share of the responses at 38%. Another 32% see weaker US and global growth weighing on the greenback next year should President-elect Donald Trump, who will take office in January, enact the tariffs he pledged on the campaign trail.