Sentences with phrase «dollar than weakness»

Last week's sell - off was mainly due to the rebounding US dollar than weakness in the euro.

Not exact matches

While gold is often considered an inflation hedge, Julius Baer said in a note, the fact that price pressures were being driven by confidence about growth rather than dollar weakness and rising oil prices meant it was failing to react positively.

LONDON, Oct 24 - The euro fell to a one - week low against the dollar on Wednesday after worse - than - expected German business activity and sentiment data fuelled concerns of weakness in the euro zone's largest economy.

Some but probably less than half of the dollar's weakness can be explained by higher than expected inflation in the US.

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

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.

Probably one of the surprises in the coming year will be fresh dollar weakness combined with falling commodity prices (i.e. global commodity prices falling faster than the value of the dollar itself).

The move reflected dollar weakness caused by a less hawkish than expected Fed statement following its widely anticipated decision to leave policy on hold.

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.

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.

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.

With the market apparently far more concerned with perception than reality when it comes to the Fed, any tendency toward higher inflation figures or substantial dollar weakness is likely to make investors fret that the Fed might not be able to «ease» as aggressively as it otherwise would.

Regardless of what was said by Trump and Mnuchin, the continued weakness in the US dollar has more negative consequences than positives.

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.

The US dollar's weakness extended into another month, making the US currency's performance against other major currencies over the first seven months of 2017 its worst start to a year for more than three decades.

1) Gary Shilling — The US Dollar has its weaknesses, but is stronger than all of the alternatives, because the US possesses a lot of strengths not found in the rest of the world.

You not only made money on the growth of your German investments, you more than doubled your earnings because of the relative weakness of the dollar during the span you were invested.

The rise of the Canadian dollar — coupled with the weakness of some foreign currencies — means that our cash goes much farther than it did a decade ago in many places.