The dollar’s weakness in the face of tighter Fed policy is reminiscent of the mid-2000s. At the time, interest rates and bond yields also moved in favour of the US, but its currency was dragged down by a growing “twin” deficit. Nonetheless, the dollar doesn’t have as much scope to fall today as it did then.
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