Following Robert Kaplan's remarks, which somewhat tempered anticipations of 'tapering' from mid-December, the Dollar started falling again.

Robert Kaplan explains that it would be more prudent to wait in the event of signals of an economic slowdown or uncertainties about growth linked to Covid variants. The Dollar may have been weakened a little by the 'digits of the day' since growth in private sector activity in the United States slowed markedly in August, from 59.9 in July to 55.4 (in 'flash' estimate ) according to the IHS Markit 'composite PMI' index. On the other hand, sales of used homes rose by 2% in the United States in July, according to the National Federation of Realtors (NAR), and the median price of a used home sold increased by 17.8% in annual comparison, at 359,900 dollars (historical record). Which becomes inaccessible for many Americans, but not for wealthy foreign investors. The yield of US T-Bonds which had deteriorated to around 1.2800% ended little changed, around 1.2550% (against 1.2600% on Friday): no impact on the Dollar... which fell -0.5% against a basket of currencies, to 93 on the Dollar index.