Sentences with phrase «of dollar weakness»

On the other hand, the nascent recovery appears mostly a reflection of dollar weakness — not EM strength.

Following Christmas and New Year holidays we have seen a new bout of dollar weakness across the board which may not be over yet based on recent price developments.

«We're pretty much back to where we were at the beginning of the year, so a lot of the dollar weakness has been pretty much wiped out,» said Sireen Harajli, foreign exchange strategist at Mizuho in New York.

Not exact matches

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

After his speech, Poloz said the recent weakness in the loonie hasn't had much of an impact on Canadian exports, which tend to benefit from a slide in the dollar.

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.

In the last couple of months, oil has tended to move inversely to the dollar, as weakness in the currency makes it cheaper for non-U.S. investors in crude to buy and vice versa.

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.

Gartner noted that the weakness of other currencies against the dollar had led to price hikes in certain regions, leading in turn to fewer sales.

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

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.

To the extent that dollar weakness reflects disproportionate improvement abroad, it undercuts claims that US policy is the reason for recent strong performance since Donald Trump is not president of the whole world.

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

Still, pockets of weakness remain as lower oil prices continue to hinder investment in the energy industry and a firm dollar restrains global sales.

Elsewhere in forex markets, it's a relatively calm day, with a slight correction in the risk - off trade that we have been monitoring for weeks, as the yen is a tad lower today against all of its major peers, while the Dollar couldn't gain on risk - on currencies, despite the equity weakness.

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

Investors should monitor current events, as well as the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product, Treasury yields, credit ratings, and the weaknesses of the dollar for signs that default risk may be rising.

Even without dollar weakness, Monday's action conveyed very negative information from the standpoint of our investment discipline.

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.

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.

Many British traders will likely be looking to capitalize on the relative weakness of the dollar when compared to the pound.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity widollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity wiDollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

Surely the weakness of the dollar is a reflection in significant part of strengthening fundamentals in Europe, which if it signifies greater competitiveness is a reason to ease not tighten.

It is highly unusual for both to occur together, so a simultaneous drop in both Treasury yields and the dollar would be a very powerful signal of impending economic weakness.

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).

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.

Currencies profiting from the dollar's weakness included many from emerging markets, which collectively registered one of their strongest quarters in many years.

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

Another of the main beneficiaries of the US dollar's weakness was the Japanese yen.

China's weakness is an important part of why the dollar is so strong.

Recent weakness in the Australian dollar may have reflected the fact that the market had become over-extended as the exchange rate had risen for six months in a row, with a cumulative rise of 25 per cent.

The strength of the dollar relative to the euro and yen has often been cited as a key factor in gold's weakness since last September.

The first few months of the year, through to the second half of April, were a period of unilateral Australian dollar weakness (Graph 28).

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.

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.

Treasury yields, credit ratings, and the weaknesses of the dollar for signs that default risk may be rising.

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.

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Chapman expects it will develop into a prolonged recession caused largely by the bursting of the housing bubble and the weakness in the dollar attributable to the United States» large federal budget deficit and international trade imbalance.

Furthermore, weakness of the euro and the British pound against the US dollar, combined with market volatility caused by ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, presents managers with additional stock - picking opportunities in the region.

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

Gold benefited from the weakness of the Dollar as it finally broke through the $ 1300 level that held back the precious metal for almost a year.

I'm struggling to ascertain if POUND strength is indicative of overall DOLLAR weakness as the market is searching for all alternatives.

The dollar's weakness should continue in at least the very short term, as bond yields keep on descending in the wake of QE2 and investors flock to non-dollar-denominated assets, says Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, based in New York.

An improving US economy, falling unemployment and the prospect of more Australian dollar weakness had us thinking that its suburban office buildings were going to further increase in value.

Yen weakness reduces the value of the company's Japanese profits when expressed in dollars.

The US Dollar index could begin a larger rally given the weakness in Pound sterling which has a lot of momentum vs USD while the BOJ meeting is on deck for the Japanese, with most eyeing Kuroda to attempt to weaken the Yen using new methods.

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.