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Will 2017 be another year of dollar dominance?

By Bloomberg
03 January 2017   |   4:49 am
Koon How Heng, Credit Suisse senior FX strategist, discusses the outlook for currencies in 2017 with Bloomberg's Betty Liu and Shery Ahn on 'Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.'

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