In the media | 06 Mar 2025

U.S. dollar strength to remain; Fed to hold interest rates until December

Innes McFee, Managing Director of Macroeconomic and Investor Services at Oxford Economics, discusses the outlook for the U.S. dollar and adds that tariffs will be a “negative” for the U.S. economy.

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