by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors June 11, 2025 The most volatile major currencies in 2025 2025 has proven to be an unusually volatile year for foreign exchange movements. The Trump administration and ongoing conflicts have led to frequent exchanges between world leaders and policymakers, while record-high tariffs are affecting global trade more significantly than it has since the 2000s. Since 2020, the world has experienced numerous disturbances, compared to the much more geopolitically stable first part of the millennium. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, new conflicts around the globe, unprecedented central bank...
Vladimir Putin’s capital controls have prevented foreign firms from moving currency out of Russia and bolstered the price of the rouble - Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters Russia’s rouble has become the world’s best-performing global currency as Donald Trump’s tariff war upends financial markets. The rouble has strengthened 38pc against the dollar since the start of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, following a dramatic fall in confidence in the US currency. Its returns have vastly outpaced the next best performing currencies, the Swedish krona and Swiss franc, which...
Vladimir Putin’s capital controls have prevented foreign firms from moving currency out of Russia and bolstered the price of the rouble - Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters Russia’s rouble has become the world’s best-performing global currency as Donald Trump’s tariff war upends financial markets. The rouble has strengthened 38pc against the dollar since the start of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, following a dramatic fall in confidence in the US currency. Its returns have vastly outpaced the next best performing currencies, the Swedish krona and Swiss franc, which...
Vladimir Putin’s capital controls have prevented foreign firms from moving currency out of Russia and bolstered the price of the rouble - Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters Russia’s rouble has become the world’s best-performing global currency as Donald Trump’s tariff war upends financial markets. The rouble has strengthened 38pc against the dollar since the start of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, following a dramatic fall in confidence in the US currency. Its returns have vastly outpaced the next best performing currencies, the Swedish krona and Swiss franc, which...
Vladimir Putin’s capital controls have prevented foreign firms from moving currency out of Russia and bolstered the price of the rouble - Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters Russia’s rouble has become the world’s best-performing global currency as Donald Trump’s tariff war upends financial markets. The rouble has strengthened 38pc against the dollar since the start of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, following a dramatic fall in confidence in the US currency. Its returns have vastly outpaced the next best performing currencies, the Swedish krona and Swiss franc, which...