Sentences with phrase «u.s. dollar weakness»

Even extreme recent U.S. dollar weakness has failed to stem Bitcoin's harrowing drop from $ 19,000 in mid-December.

Companies with a large share of global sales have outperformed other groups of stocks this year based on the uncertain prospects for the US economy, U.S. dollar weakness, and high hopes for a global economic recovery, spurred by developing economies.

U.S. dollar weakness has added to commodity price gains, but we see other factors driving prices from here.

Gold performed as expected during the quarter, serving as a safe haven and delivering positive returns, while the price of oil surged more than 5 % on U.S. dollar weakness and news that OPEC and Russia could be cooperating to limit output for a long period.

BEIJING — China's foreign exchange reserves rose slightly in March as broad U.S. dollar weakness continued and escalating trade tensions between the world's two largest economies bolstered expectations of a firmer Chinese currency.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Gold performed as expected during the quarter, serving as a safe haven and delivering positive returns, while the price of oil surged more than 5 percent on U.S. dollar weakness and news that OPEC and Russia could be cooperating to limit output for a long period.

Not exact matches

Progress to overhaul the U.S. tax system and President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Federal Reserve could be two major events that lead to weakness for the dollar, according to one currency expert.

But for now, the weakness of the U.S. dollar is another headache for the European Central Bank.

Given the recent weakness in the dollar, the modest acceleration in hourly wages and stable leading indicators, for now my view is that the U.S. economy will continue to expand in the coming quarters.

There is no question that the Aussie strength is a direct consequence of weakness in the U.S. dollar, Daryl Guppy writes.

Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped to lift assets priced in the U.S. currency, with gold last week registering a fourth straight weekly gain for the first time since April.

Renewed confidence in the European economy and persistent weakness in the dollar have driven the euro up 16 percent against the U.S. currency from the first quarter last year to the end of March 2018.

The balance of the appreciation reflects forces other than U.S. - dollar weakness and commodity prices.

Global reflation, combined with U.S. - dollar weakness, created investor complacency that ideal liquidity conditions would continue indefinitely.

The weakness in the U.S. dollar is essentially a reflection of very weak demand conditions in the U.S., both for goods, and for U.S. security investments by foreigners.

With dollar weakness complicating the investment case for U.S. fixed income assets, flows to U.S. Bond Funds were close to neutral going into March as investors pulled back from all the major groups except Emerging Markets Hard Currency Bond Funds...

The concerted weakening in commodity prices already suggests a global force to this economic downturn, while further weakness in the U.S. dollar would suggest that demand for U.S. goods and securities was softening even more sharply than internationally.

In that context, a downturn in the dollar can expected to mark any acceleration of U.S. weakness.

The fact that many advanced economies are suffering from deficient demand and have policy rates at or near the zero bound and that the U.S. dollar is a favored safe - haven asset may imply that adverse foreign demand shocks have a particularly strong effect on the value of the dollar, effectively transmitting the weakness to the U.S. economy.

Strength in the U.S. dollar, weakness in the commodity sector and still lingering trade war fears have made longs jumpy.

The dollar's weakness, however, failed to help global oil prices, which continued to fall in Monday trading following last Friday's data from Baker Hughes (BHI) showed U.S. oil and natural gas producers added 21 rigs over the past week,

Weakness in the U.S. currency rather than factors on the Canadian side are likely to be the primary catalyst for a slide in USD / CAD, according to BMO's global head of foreign - exchange strategy Greg Anderson, who cited a market that's gotten ahead of itself with regard to Federal Reserve tightening and a tax proposal that's likely to be dollar negative.

The U.S. Dollar Index is modestly lower today at 92.43 with the greenback displaying weakness against the euro -LRB--0.3 % at 1.1988) and the yen -LRB--0.6 % at 109.22).

That's resulting in a little bit of a weakness in the U.S. dollar,»

In my view, the most likely accompaniment to economic weakness would not be a decline in nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollar.

So one of the casualties of easing credit fears is likely to be weakness in the U.S. dollar, and a concurrent strengthening in commodities - particularly precious metals, which serve as a currency substitute.

Though a strong dollar and weakness in China have had a negative impact on U.S. corporate earnings, neither has had a material impact on overall U.S. growth.

But further strength in the U.S. dollar would likely be good for equity markets that traditionally outperform on their currency's weakness, such as Japan and the eurozone, as a stronger dollar will make their exports more competitive.

Due to the U.S. dollar's weakness relative to other global currencies, we currently hedge two underlying foreign currencies, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc.

Currency Hedges Because of the U.S. dollar's continued weakness relative to other global currencies, we added to existing hedge positions and initiated a hedge for part of the Fund's euro exposure.

So it's really what's going to happen in the shorter term — What kind of strength we're going to see or weakness in the U.S. dollar.

But further strength in the U.S. dollar would likely be good for equity markets that traditionally outperform on their currency's weakness, such as Japan and the eurozone, as a stronger dollar will make their exports more competitive.

Rising Global Equity Markets Pressure Dollar Overnight Stronger global equity markets are contributing to the weakness in the Dollar as traders are once again increasing demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

Stronger global equity markets contributed to the weakness in the Dollar early in the trading session as traders once again increased demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.This morning, traders drove equities higher after taking a look at the U.S. em...

Stronger global equity markets contributed to the earlier weakness in the Dollar as traders once again increased demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

This exemplifies how little influence U.S. dollar strength / weakness has exerted on Bitcoin prices to date.

Due to low prices and the relative weakness of the dollar, international buyers continue to identify the U.S. as a desirable place to own property and make a profitable investment.