London — The dollar limped towards its worst week since August on Friday and world stocks headed for their first weekly fall in five, as storms surrounding Donald Trump’s US presidency and Latin America’s biggest economy, Brazil, began to calm. The most eventful week of 2017 for markets started with stocks at record high but then saw one of the sharpest cross-asset routs in years. Europe’s main bourses nudged higher on Friday to build on tentative recoveries on Wall Street and in Tokyo while demand for safe-haven bonds eased. But jitters persisted, leaving safe-haven gold headed higher again for its best week since April and the dollar back on the slide after falling to its lowest level since Trump’s US election victory in November. "The frustrating element is that we are now at the mercy of equity markets," said National Australia Bank’s global head of forex strategy, Nick Parsons. "We can be pretty confident that 10 points on or off of the S&P 500 is a big figure on or off of doll...
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