The research team at ING notes that recently, President Trump in an interview with the WSJ said that the dollar is “getting too strong” and that he prefers a “low interest rate policy”.
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“While we've seen attempts from the President to talk down the dollar before, the reference to interest rates makes this jawboning with a hypothetically credible action point. All assumptions around the interaction between Trump’s pro-growth fiscal plans and the Fed’s reaction function have so far been hinged on inflation being anchored around the 2% target; the baseline view is that the Fed might be forced to tighten quicker if any fiscal stimulus was delivered. But it’s clear that this chain of logic is becoming distorted and with the Trump administration set to appoint 2 new Fed Governors this year – and potentially a new Chair and Vice-Chair next year – the standard assumptions cannot be taken for granted.”
“A shift in the inflation target remains a tail risk for now (given the negatives here), but it’s not inconceivable to see the Fed allowing for a sustained period of above-target inflation, while hiking rates very gradually. While this points to downward pressure at the front-end of the US rate curve, the reality is that US growth and inflation will remain relatively robust. As such, we would still expect a bearish steepening of the US yield curve once near-term headwinds fade and in the absence of further risk aversion, long USD/JPY positions look attractive at current levels (our 1M target remains 115).”
“In the same interview, the President also stated that he won’t be labelling China a currency manipulator – taking off the table one of the potential risks stemming from the US Treasury’s FX report. In fact, we do not expect any country to meet the standard of manipulating currencies – meaning that protectionist risks should be relatively contained. We note that the Trump administration are focusing their trade attention on bilateral negotiations and this should in theory have little initial impact on FX markets. For now, the dollar’s woes remain compounded by rising geopolitical tensions (North Korea) – although in the absence of any escalation, we would expect the $ to pare some of its post-Trump loses (DXY above 100).”
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