WASHINGTON—By talking down the value of the U.S. dollar, President-elect Donald Trump is potentially veering away from more than two decades of strong-dollar precedent. Since the mid-1990s, administrations from both sides of the aisle have maintained a policy of backing a strong U.S. currency as a way to keep interest rates low, inflation under control and U.S. buying power strong. Presidents have tended to refrain from...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 17, 2017 22:01 UTC