Donald Trump’s fresh pressure on countries around the world to stay anchored to a US-dollar-based financial system is a tactic that risks backfiring, market watchers say.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on BRICS countries if they create their own currency, said on Monday that any U.S. attempt to compel countries to use the dollar would backfire.

Despite calls from BRICS countries to adopt an alternate currency, the dollar is in no “immediate danger,” analysts said.