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President Trump has little power over currency markets

The new US administration has made a lot of noise about currencies during its first few weeks. But there is little chance of it engineering a move away from the system of free-floating exchange rates between advanced economies, and none whatsoever of it pressuring China to make the renminbi appreciate.

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