Marcus Ashworth, Columnist

Trump Bluster Alone Won't Budge King Dollar

It's going to require some pretty powerful catalysts to weaken the greenback.

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In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the White Queen remarks to Alice "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Donald Trump's mission list is too long to detail here, but in macroeconomic terms he's after a few big conflicting things — tariffs aside: a weaker dollar, lower interest rates and oil prices set against a raging stock market and powerful economic growth.