Dollar slumps as US faces loss of confidence – impact on Indian rupee, other currencies | Business News
US President Donald Trump may have hit the pause on his trade vacillations, but there seems to be a lingering deleterious effect on the American Dollar, which has slumped sharply. Reason: waning confidence in the American economy is leading to a huge flight out of the greenback to other safe haven currencies and gold. This is reflective of a breakdown of a fundamental assumption underpinning global finance – that when there are serious bouts of volatility in the forex markets and a spike in the VIX (volatility index), it normally...