De-dollarization is an effort by a growing number of countries to reduce the role of the U.S. dollar in international trade.

Rising debt levels and the expanding use of sanctions in foreign policy have triggered debate over the long-term strength of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

Learn how the U.S. dollar influences global currency markets, forex trading, commodity prices, interest rates, and ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for the Chinese yuan to become a global reserve currency, perhaps capitalizing on the dollar's decline over the past year. Over the weekend, the ruling Communist ...

President Donald Trump signed the Genius Act, the first federal legislation in the U.S. regulating stablecoins, in July. Stablecoins could help the U.S. dollar stay the world's No. 1 reserve currency, ...

There is a huge amount of silliness around the dollar’s status as the world’s leading reserve currency. “Leading” is the key word in that sentence. There are several currencies that countries treat as ...

The weakness of the US dollar isn't arriving as a one-off shocker. Instead, it's showing up as a structural drift, akin to a glacier movement downhill, with an occasional headline when a bigger piece ...

For developing countries, a weaker greenback is usually good news. Poor-country governments borrow more in dollars than rich ones, so their debt bills get slashed. In the first six months of 2025, the ...

Fiat currencies have been the primary store of value and means of exchange since the world economy ended the practice of the gold standard in the 1970s. "Your paper is paper," as David Koechner's ...

Jo is a former writer at Forbes Advisor. Having worked in investment banking for over 20 years, she has turned her skills and experience to writing about all areas of personal finance. Her aim is to ...