Sentences with phrase «of a weaker dollar in»

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S&P said in March a rupiah exchange rate of 15,000 a dollar is «the psychological level» at which companies with weak balance - sheets could struggle with repayments and those with good cashflow might start to proactively restructure their debt.

In currency markets, the euro held at two - year highs following remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the weeIn currency markets, the euro held at two - year highs following remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the weein the week.

Hannah Anderson of J.P. Morgan Asset Management says the near - term focus is on oil prices ahead of an important meeting in June on OPEC - led oil curbs, but the weak dollar is the longer - term variable for markets.

BAML also highlights a weak US dollar as boosting the profitability of multinational corporations, many of which have large weightings in major equity indexes.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

NEW YORK, Jan 2 - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite notched record closing highs on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2018, while European equities finished lower and the U.S. dollar fell to its weakest level in over three months against key currencies.

NEW YORK, Jan 2 - European stocks closed lower on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2018, while Wall Street advanced and the U.S. dollar fell to its weakest in over three months against key currencies.

The price of oil collapsed from near $ 120 a barrel in June 2014 due to weak demand, a strong dollar and booming U.S. shale production.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 1 - Novo Nordisk operating profit fell short of expectations in the fourth quarter as it felt the effects of price pressure in the United States and it warned that a weak dollar would hit earnings this year more than expected.

«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

Better China data and a weaker dollar has a slight bid under Industrial metals as well as Ore - but weakness persists in Oil - Brent is off 2.2 % and WTI 1.6 % as Saudi signals they r fine with South of $ 90 - even as low as $ 80.

«The US dollar has been exceptionally and unexpectedly weak this year,» a group of Morgan Stanley strategists led by Michael J. Wilson wrote in a client note.

Suki Cooper of Standard Chartered says gold prices could see gains after the Fed's meeting in June as the U.S. dollar is expected to trend weaker in the second half of the year.

-- it will face continued margin pressures «due to higher labor content in certain areas of manufacturing where we have temporarily dialed back automation, as well as higher material costs from recently imposed tariffs, commodity price increases and a weaker US dollar.»

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- New orders for U.S. factory goods recorded their biggest increase in eight months in March, boosted by demand for transportation equipment, but the underlying trend remained weak against the backdrop of a strong dollar.

«What sparked the rally is a perception of a shift in Canadian government policy toward the dollar,» said Michael Malpede, a currency analyst in Chicago with Refco Inc., adding that Mr. Dodge's comments put an end to the widely held perception in the market that Canada supported a weak currency to help its exporters.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Oil jumped as much as 3 percent on Tuesday as a weak dollar propped up commodities, but crude prices came off their highs in post-settlement trading on signs of another big U.S. supply build last week.

This is because higher inflows will cause adjustments in the economy — potentially including lower credit card rates, a stronger dollar, weaker lending standards, higher unemployment and surging asset markets» - Could you please provide us the explanation of a rising unemployment in the US in the case of a stronger US$?

«With interest rates low, commodity inflation nil and the dollar weaker than I thought, I had no choice but to put something to work,» he wrote in one of his Real Money columns Friday.

The recent increase in oil prices in 2015 corresponds to weakening of the dollar that may reflect disappointingly weak first quarter 2015 U.S. GDP growth.

At the same time, the Fed may raise rates if inflation picks up, and there's a host of reasons that could occur: acceleration in wages, a weaker dollar, rising commodity prices, growing risks of protectionism, overseas cash repatriation.

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.

If we look at the index's constituents, we find that six metals — aluminum, copper, zinc, gold, silver and nickel — have been the top drivers of performance this year, thanks to a weaker dollar, China's commitment to rein in oversupply and heightened demand.

As shown in the chart below, signs of economic stabilization in China combined with recovering commodity prices and a weaker U.S. dollar created short - term tailwinds for EM assets.

The Euro is trading at its lowest versus the Dollar since January and is weak against its major counterparts after first quarter data showed a significant slowdown in the economy from the final three months of 2017.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

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.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

In the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not investing.

2015.10.28 Exporting represents golden growth opportunity for small - and medium - sized businesses in Canada: RBC Economics A weaker Canadian dollar, lower energy prices and stronger growth in key export markets are creating opportunities for small businesses to reap the benefits of exporting...

The main drivers of the first - half performance were solid growth in the combined New Zealand properties, offset by reduced turnover in the international business, continued competitive and economic pressures in Darwin and a weaker Australian dollar, the company said.

A Fed on hold and weaker dollar are good news for the asset class (see the chart below), and there are signs of progress on structural reforms in certain EM countries.

The post-2008 dollar debt binge also taught emerging markets corporate finance managers a stern lesson in the risks of currency mismatches, especially when borrowing in a currency that seems weak.

With crude - oil exports rising year - over-year, the value of the exports did not rise proportionally, with Canada's crude - oil export bill declining about 11 percent to $ 50 billion in 2016 compared to $ 55.8 billion the previous year, as lower crude prices and a weaker dollar cramped the export value of crude.

I also think more foreign companies will consider investing in the United States, as the combination of lower tax rates and the weak dollar makes the US a more attractive place to invest.

«Coinbase looks like a bank, stores millions of dollars like a bank, but you don't realize how weak its default protections are until you are robbed of thousands of dollars in minutes,» said Cody Brown, a virtual reality developer who was hacked in May.

-- 4 reasons why «gold has entered a new bull market» — Schroders — Market complacency is key to gold bull market say Schroders — Investors are currently pricing in the most benign risk environment in history as seen in the VIX — History shows gold has the potential to perform very well in periods of stock market weakness (see chart)-- You should buy insurance when insurers don't believe that the «risk event» will happen — Very high Chinese gold demand, negative global interest rates and a weak dollar should push gold higher

More on the U.S. dollar's stock market impact will be in another post soon, but in the meantime note large - caps do worst of the sizes with both GDP growth and a weaker dollar.

Despite a strong dollar and weak exports, manufacturing activity will benefit from improved domestic demand, and further gains in construction activity will aid the recovery of states such as California and Arizona.

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.

You may inflate your way out of your debt problem but you're not going to grow your way out of the debt problem, so let's get behind that and if the dollar got too strong then the impotence from the white house would be to have more tariffs because they are hell bent on shrinking this trade deficit so when Kudlow discusses that, he ought to be very careful about where he is going because this white house, Peter Navarro and Wilbert Ross will push for a weaker dollar because a weaker dollar is Mnuchin and Wilbert Ross both said in Davos, is sending soldiers to the ramparts in the trade war that exists every day.

Summers, who is considered the academic architect of the strong dollar - weak gold policy implemented by the Clinton administration, has achieved notoriety because of the tough way in which the IMF has tried to discipline countries implementing lax fiscal policies.

They printed a massive amount of Swiss Franc which they've converted to other currencies which they bought equities and they've done so well so the paper profit 55 billion last year equal to eight percent of their GDPall through the creation of money in order to keep the Swiss Franc weak, which they've managed to weaken against the Euro last year also by about 10 percent even though the Swiss itself held against the dollar was a little bit stronger..

After falling quite sharply in May — owing largely to weaker - than - expected US economic data and comments by US administration officials which were perceived by the market as a softening of the «strong dollar» stance of the US — the US dollar stabilised in early June before appreciating towards the end of the period.

Strauss - Kahn and Summers are now arguing for fiscal stimulus in what can be seen as a criticism of the Greenspan - Bernanke policy of weak dollar / strong gold that has placed the world economy at the brink of a possible downturn.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

Last week, Sechin was quoted as saying that the recent rise in oil prices was due to a weak dollar, instead of efforts by OPEC to combat the global crude supply glut.

Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

The combined effects of the appreciation of the dollar and weaker external demand have already seen a sharp increase in the trade deficit, with both a rapid rise in imports and a fall in exports.

The answer can be found in a weak U.S. dollar (the dollar index has wallowed around the 90 mark for much of 2018, after a stunning free fall in 2017), an immense fiscal expansion in the last decade pushing the economy toward overheating, a tight labor market, and recent (albeit modest) price pressure in the wake of trade war possibilities and tariff talk, Slok said.