US Dollar falls as Trump doubles down on Greenland

美元下跌,特朗普加大力度对格陵兰岛感兴趣

World Business Report

2026-01-21

9 分钟
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President Trump insists there’s ‘no going back’ on taking control of the island
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  • I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series,

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  • We'll be looking at the growing tensions between Donald Trump and Europe over who owns Greenland.

  • He's threatened more tariffs against European countries.

  • The EU says it will be unflinching in its response.

  • And it's exactly one year since President Trump returned to the White House.

  • We'll look at his economic legacy so far.

  • But we're going to start by talking about Greenland

  • because within the last hour or so US stock markets have opened sharply lower and the dollar is also weaker.

  • And this is mostly, it seems,

  • due to a dispute over a large but largely deserted snow covered island north of the United States.

  • To bring us up to date on what's going on,

  • I'm joined by Fiona Sincotta, senior market analyst at City Index.

  • Fiona Greenland.