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Comfort Zone Investing: The unmighty dollar
The dollar doesn't buy what it used to, especially if it's something made in another country. When the dollar is weak, imports cost more because it takes more dollars to buy a foreign product. And the weak dollar is just the way our government likes ...
Why do we have a weak dollar?
The stock market is rallying. Commodities are on a tear. Yet the dollar is falling. Why?
There are several reasons for the drop in the dollar, but the most obvious and simple answer is that investors around the world are selling dollars and using ...
Dollar is at a critical stage as banks shift reserves
The US dollar is cascading downward. This move is causing banks, especially central banks, to shift reserves out of the dollar into the euro and yen.
A Bloomberg survey reports that policy makers boosted currency holdings by $41.3 billion dollars in ...
Is dollar destined to dive in 2010?
Is a continued weakening in the dollar in the first half of 2010 a fait accompli? Not so fast. The median prediction in Bloomberg's survey of as many as 43 strategists shows the dollar gaining against the euro, British pound, yen, Swiss franc, and ...
Weak dollar adds $20 to the price of oil
The price of oil has risen from about $30 per barrel at the height of the economic recession to the present $77 per barrel. Much of the increase is due to the weakness in the U.S. dollar. Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil (XOM) told CNBC: "If you put ...
Dollar's rise may be brief
What's next for the dollar? Good question. It depends on which set of economic data points you emphasize, or which mindset/narrative you believe is dominant in the currency markets. After a nearly two-week decline against the world's other, major ...
Dollar General goes retail on Wall Street
Dollar General Store (DG) started as a wholesaler in 1939 and then became a retailer in 1955, when the company setup its first store. Since then, the company has grown rapidly. Now, Dollar General is the largest discount retailer in the U.S. -- that ...
Bernanke: Fed is monitoring changes in dollar's value
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did something Monday that Fed chairs rarely do: he commented on the dollar. Comments about the dollar are almost exclusively left to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, but on Monday Bernanke, in a speech ...
Will Americans be working for Chinese wages?
The only thing that has been devalued faster than our precious dollar is the perpetual slide in government credibility. Over the years we have heard countless times about the importance of a strong dollar from our leaders.
"Our administration ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner wants a strong dollar
Treasury Secretary Geithner, speaking from Tokyo, said that he wants a strong dollar and that the United States is determined to bring budget deficits down.
Mr Geithner has made this statement several times in the past. Yet, this year the dollar has ...
Why is gold making a new high, trading at $1,118.00 per ounce?
A wise trader once told me: "It's all in the price. All the thoughts, ideas and emotions of all the traders throughout the world are in that one number."
Gold is trading at $1,118.00 per ounce. What is that number telling us? Pure and simple, the ...
Weak dollar winner #2: Caterpillar (CAT)
Nothing says manufacturing like Caterpillar (CAT). Those monster trucks made for earth-moving, digging and trucking are the epitome of making stuff in the good old USA.
Emerging markets are gaining confidence in building again, and a declining ...
Bernanke says he'll keep an eye on the falling dollar
In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed concerns about the falling US dollar. How? He says he is "attentive to the implications of changes in the value of the dollar" and will "monitor these ...
Technical trade #2: Family Dollar Stores (FDO)
Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) operates a chain of discount retail stores. As one of the great "dollar stores," it often leads the retail group.
The chart is loaded with bullish technical signals, including a gold cross, a new buy signal from ...
Gold is up as investors seek shelter from the storm
Gold usually has an inverse relationship with the dollar. When the USD goes up, gold goes down, because theoretically a stronger dollar can buy more gold. Additionally, commodities in general tend to fall on a stronger dollar because it is often ...
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Consumers sick of recession, may spend extra on holidays
Corrections, seasonality and Santa Claus
