We then ranked these 28 countries by the dollar's value in local currency, and by airfare.
Gold prices rallied sharply on Friday, supported by the dollar weakening and the stock market rallying.
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The oil-price spike has been magnified by the dollar?s decline against other currencies.
Whether its computers, drugs, even farm equipment or soda water, your revenue line gets squeezed 3% or 4% by the dollar exchange rate.
Their research suggested that 90% of the export boom could be explained by the dollar's depreciation and by relatively stronger growth in America's trade partners.
Admittedly, sterling is still dwarfed by the dollar and the euro.
Ultimately we trade products for products, and to express oneself in a currency whose value is defined by the dollar is the best way to facilitate those exchanges.
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The foreign debts represent only 6% of total bank assets and the effect on these liabilities is mitigated by the dollar assets banks create with this funding through export-credit financing.
The wonkiest among you will recall that the medical loss ratio is loosely defined as the dollar amount that an insurer spends on the health care of its beneficiaries, divided by the total dollar amount the insurer collects in premiums.
What is required is a statutory device adopted by both Europe and the U.S. by which the dollar and euro can be fixed to one another through gold, in consequence of which all other currencies would be compelled "as if by a hidden hand" to align themselves properly with gold through the dollar or euro.
What is to be gained by devaluing the dollar by an additional factor of three?
Nonetheless, it still defined the dollar as a fixed weight of gold, and for 20 years supported economic results for all Americans that were far superior to those produced by the paper dollar system of the past 42 years.
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In effect, he is asking why his country should be vulnerable to the destructive currency crises sweeping the world, including neighboring Brazil, and, why, instead of trying to keep the peso tied to the dollar, he shouldn't make life simpler by using the dollar itself.
For example, according to the Big Mac index, sterling is overvalued by 26% against the dollar and by 13% against the euro.
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The money flow is calculated by subtracting the dollar amount of the stock traded on downticks and the dollar amount of the stock traded on upticks.
Under a genuine gold standard, the money supply responds automatically to the demand for money, and the value of money is anchored by defining the dollar in terms of gold.
After eight years of threatening punitive action to compel appreciation of the Chinese currency at a pace deemed acceptable by U.S. politicians (a period, by the way, in which the Yuan appreciated by 30% against the dollar in nominal terms and by much more in real terms), lawmakers may just pull the trigger this time.
European investors have been heavy buyers of American shares, and bonds, attracted not just by the country's economic prospects, but also by the strong dollar.
The nice thing about dollar-cost averaging is that by putting the same dollar amount in, you buy more shares when the price is lower and that's in my view the only way to do it.
Mr Velloso is worried about possible further weakness in the exchange rate (the real depreciated by 17% against the dollar in the last three months of 2008), and also by the ability of Brazilian companies to roll over their debt.
Now, it is clear why: He believes it is possible and desirable to link the dollar and the euro by bureaucratic fiat (pun most certainly intended) simply by having the U.S. Treasury fix the exchange rate between the dollar and the euro by decree.
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Given all of the uncertainty surrounding Europe, there is no reason why the Euro should have appreciated by 18 percent against the dollar over the past 15 months, other than purchases by China.
Heath helped undermine his day's international monetary system by attacking the dollar on foreign-exchange markets.
The plane maker's income was hurt by the weak dollar, higher research-and-development costs and pricing pressures.
In fact, non-U.S. billionaires will see their fortunes significantly boosted by the falling dollar.
Unless Coke management foresaw this and hedged this exposure, earnings will be reduced by the stronger dollar.
In addition, the company, which has a large presence in the U.S., has been hit hard by the weakening dollar.
But the efforts to slow down the economy may be hampered by the vulnerability of the dollar to a sudden slowdown.
By keeping the dollar too high, and therefore blunting its competitive edge, the U.S. has long funded the world and indebted itself.
American exports are stressed by the strong dollar and trading partner weakness.
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