Plaza Accord
U.S. Official Rhetoric Restores Dollar’s Upward Trajectory
September 28, 2022
There will be no Plaza Accord this time, according to U.S. National Economic Council Director Brian Deese. The dollar had doubled in value against such currencies as the German mark from late 1980 to early 1985 and was generating big strains in trade flows. The dollar had corrected partly in the spring but was threatening […] More
Decline Continues in Equity Markets
February 26, 2020
The dollar climbed overnight by 0.6% against sterling, 0.5% relative to the Australian dollar, 0.3% versus the yen and peso, 0.2% vis-a-vis the loonie, and 0.1% against the yuan. The dollar also extended its uptrend against several developing country currencies like the South African rand and South Korean won. Alternatively, the dollar dipped 0.2% against […] More
Looking Back at the Plaza and Louvre Currency Accords
October 21, 2010
A meeting of G20 finance ministers this Friday and Saturday in South Korea has conjured up special interest in the Plaza Accord of September 22, 1985 and the Louvre Accord of February 22, 1987. Both agreements constituted efforts to shift currency market momentum. The dollar became very overvalued in the first half of the 1980s […] More
