HONG KONG: The dollar sank Tuesday as two Republican senators rejected their party’s bill to repeal Obamacare, effectively killing it and throwing Donald Trump’s economic agenda into doubt.

The greenback had soared along with global markets for months after Trump’s November election victory on hopes his big-spending, tax-cutting policies would fire up the world’s top economy and fan inflation.

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