Sentences with phrase «effects of a strong dollar»

Capital Markets Foreign Exchange After years of bemoaning the negative effects of the strong dollar on their revenue and earnings, US - based multinationals are singing a different tune.

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The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

Recent export data are improving but are not strong enough to make up for ground lost during the first half of 2016, despite the effects of the Canadian dollar's past depreciation.

The RBA study pays special attention to the exchange rate appreciation, noting that the stronger Australian dollar had the effect of moderating the effects of resource price increases: higher exchange rates make all exports — including resource exports — less competitive on world markets.

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.

The sale of its consumer health business to Bayer, and the negative effects of a stronger U.S. dollar, have also weighed on results.

Nevertheless I do worry that the fall in exports from a strong dollar is a bit stronger than the rise in exports from a weak dollar: I suspect because there is a hysteresis effect: Once a factory is shut down, it stays shut down — and if firms don't continuously invest to stay at the cutting edge of technology, it can be hard for a high - wage advanced economy to stay globally competitive.

A weaker dollar tends to be beneficial for multinational companies, because it can support sales of goods and services abroad, with a stronger dollar having the opposite effect.

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

Underlining the lack of evidence for a rate rise, communicating that any change in policy would not come as a surprise or ahead of schedule, and forecasting weaker US growth thanks in part to the strong dollar had its desired effect: but not for long.

The materials sector is 5 per cent lower than at end October and has shown considerable volatility during the period because of the conflicting effects of strong increases in metals prices and concerns about the appreciation of the Australian dollar.

Since US dollar pairs constitute about 90 % of all Forex trades that are taken, US economic news releases tend to have a much stronger effect on price than news releases from any other session.

This looks great at the pumps of course, but has a strong negative effect on other parts of our economy, including the value of the Canadian dollar, which has been dropping rapidly.

I particularly agree that unless we also have a strong dollar, the effect of cutting taxes is diluted.