ING’s Deepali Bhargava highlights that India is a notable beneficiary of the US tariff reset, with the removal of elevated IEEPA surcharges further reducing its effective tariff burden after earlier cuts.
BNY’s Head of Markets Macro Strategy Bob Savage sees supportive fundamentals for Asia FX, citing accommodative monetary policy, fiscal expansion and AI- and semiconductor-led export growth.
USD/CAD trades around 1.3665 on Monday at the time of writing, virtually unchanged on the day. The pair is attempting to stabilize following last week’s late pullback from a monthly high, but it remains below the psychological 1.3700 threshold.
AUD/USD softens on Monday as the Australian Dollar (AUD) struggles to gain traction despite a weaker US Dollar (USD), with traders digesting fresh trade-related uncertainty linked to US tariffs.
ABN AMRO economists Rogier Quaedvlieg, Arjen van Dijkhuizen and Bill Diviney analyse how the US Supreme Court’s annulment of IEEPA-based tariffs modestly lowers overall US tariff levels while leaving them historically high.