The US dollar weakness is getting serious.

It's a holiday in much of the trading world today but the dollar selling had been steady until the last hour when it bounced. In that time, dollar weakness has cleared several hurdles:

  • USD/CHF lowest in 10 years
  • EUR/USD highest since 2021
  • GBP/USD highest since October
  • USD/CAD lowest since November
  • USD/JPY lowest since September
  • DXY lowest since 2021
  • Gold all time high

Coming into the year the US dollar was sizzling hot and hitting multi-year highs against most of the currencies on that list. It's been a rapid and worrisome turnaround that's undone most of the correlations that ran for the last 15 years.

The risk-on/risk-off trade has been teetering for awhile and now it's utterly broken. S&P 500 futures are down 1% today and yen NZD/USD is up more than 1%.

Just six months ago this magazine cover might go down as one of the all-time counter indicators.

The envy of the world US dollar economist cover
Source: Forex Live