For decades, dollars have been the world's common financial language — the "reserve currency." When financial markets tank, people have rushed toward the dollar for safety. It might be changing. For ...

Talk about privilege. The dollar is not just the currency of the United States; it is what's called the world's "reserve currency," where people and institutions park their money. But there's concern ...

A sharp decline in the U.S. dollar over the past few weeks has captivated Wall Street and inspired a wave of catastrophizing about the end of the dollar’s reign as the de facto global reserve currency ...

The US dollar risks losing the status of the world’s reserve currency to digital assets like Bitcoin, said BlackRock CEO and chairman Larry Fink. Fink made the remark in the chairman’s annual letter ...

Stablecoins could help the U.S. dollar stay the world’s No. 1 reserve currency, but not in the way that many have assumed, according to Deutsche Bank Research. U.S. policymakers in July touted the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The U.S. share of a leading index of global equities is now around 70 percent.

The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency with no obvious successors, but the recent market volatility has revived questions about the role of the greenback for the global economy going forward.

'There will come a day when the global financial markets will be denominated in an asset other than the U.S. dollar, but that is [a] long way away' A sharp decline in the U.S. dollar over the past few ...