Chart of the week: The Mexican peso has peaked

The Mexican peso has gained 8% against the dollar this year. But that's as far as it is likely to go.

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The Mexican peso has gained 8% against the dollar this year. That's "not bad", considering that Donald Trump has threatened to tear up the country's "economic lifeline", the North American Free Trade Agreement, while the likely next president, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, has a reputation as a left-wing populist, says Craig Mellow in Barron's.

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