Can't See the Risk-Off by Looking at the Dollar or Gold

  • Overview: The combination of President Trump's renewed threat to send letters to announce the new bilateral tariff letters and the heightened tensions with Iran have spurred risk-off forces but they have not been expressed, as often is the case, with a stronger dollar and a surge in gold. The greenback is softer against nearly all the G10 currencies and most emerging markets currencies, though not the Mexican peso, which rose to its best level since last August yesterday.