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The dollar's recent slump looks set to continue through 2023, UBS Global Wealth Management's Dominic Schnider said Friday.

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"We think they're close to wrapping it up, thank goodness," JP Morgan Asset Management strategist Phil Camporeale said Wednesday.

"The Federal Reserve will ultimately have plenty of excuse to taper down the rate hikes and pause them in the first quarter of next year."

Markets are dismissing inflation risks after Powell signaled rate hikes may slow, and investors aren't pricing in credit and earnings risk, El-Erian said.

"I don't think they're bearish enough in terms of this margin deterioration," Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson said of other market commentators.

"Almost by definition, once it stops hiking, it's easing. And does that work against everything the Fed is trying to achieve?"

"We don't think we've hit yet the sort of conditions that we would typically see in a genuine trough in the bear market."

"Surging stocks show markets believe hopes of a soft-landing by the Fed to be true. We disagree," BlackRock strategists said in a note on Monday.

"My view is that the Fed has probably done enough already," Krugman said, warning the central bank could "go a bit too far" to restore credibility.