07-16-2021, 09:48 AM
Gundlach says the dollar is ‘doomed’ over the long term because of rising U.S. deficits
- DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach told CNBC on Thursday that he believes the U.S. dollar is “doomed” over the long term.
- “The dollar is going to fall pretty substantially” at some point due to increasing U.S. trade and budget deficits, Gundlach said.
- “It’s a question of what your horizon is,” the so-called bond king added.
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DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach offered a dire long-term assessment on the U.S. dollar Thursday, telling CNBC in an interview he thinks the greenback is “doomed.”
“Ultimately, the size of our deficits — both trade deficit, which has exploded post-pandemic, and the budget deficit, which is, obviously, completely off the charts — suggest that in the intermediate term — I don’t really think this year, exactly, but in the intermediate term — the dollar is going to fall pretty substantially,” Gundlach said on “Halftime Report.”
“That’s going to be a very important dynamic, because one of the things that’s helped the bond market, without any doubt, has been foreign buying, with the interest rate differentials having favored hedged U.S. bond positions for foreign bond investors,” he added.
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