Even if the dollar doesn’t weaken any further, the 7% depreciation in trade weighted terms already seen this year will help support GDP growth via the resulting boost to exports. But the recent moves are also putting renewed upward pressure on import prices, which will soon start to feed through into higher core inflation.
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