Week ahead: Deja vu as Trump tweets, G20 sparks anger

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It’s groundhog day in the news cycle; US President Donald Trump tweets about the economy and inevitably, everyone is up in arms. This week, the focus is on currencies, especially the US dollar, which Trump thinks is too strong.

Meanwhile, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is in Buenos Aires for the G20 finance ministers’ meeting discussing free trade. We discuss, as always, trade issues and Mnuchin’s visit.

Lastly, we recap Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the UAE, which just wrapped up a day ago. We discuss the main deals that were signed, and why the visit by the head of the world’s second-largest economy was rather underwhelming.

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