The softness of the single currency did benefit German exporters.
The extraordinary downdraft in the dollar suggests big multinationals must benefit from currency translation of offshore earnings, at least through yearend.
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In this scenario, fixed income assets tend to suffer while inflation-hedging assets benefit from the currency devaluation.
The big flows remain foreign direct investment and they know they would hurt themselves more by taxing that, than they would benefit from the weaker currency.
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True, other countries have achieved the kind of permanent budgetary adjustment that the IMF is looking for in Greece, but it is hard to find one that has done so without the benefit of a cheaper currency.
The dollar has dropped 10% from recent highs to make commodities more attractive to foreign buyers who will also benefit from strengthening in their currency.
How does it benefit the American economy to have currency that is less valuable than its European neighbors?
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It would be a huge benefit to international trade to eliminate currency valuation risk and transaction (exchange) costs.
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In truth, although more American purchases would nominally benefit some Japanese exporters, a weaker currency is a detriment to the overall Japanese economy.
This combination of rising prices in the U.S. and slower price increases in strong currency countries over time offsets any short-term benefit that may be gained by devaluing the dollar.
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Despite the efforts of the U.S. Treasury Department and other government agencies to curtail financial flows (both overt and covert) to bad actors, these regimes continue to benefit from the lawful inflows of hard currency and external financing.
For the buyers, obtaining a higher interest rate than is available from bank deposits, as well as the ability to purchase a yuan-denominated security and to benefit from the appreciation of the Chinese currency that many expect in the coming years are the main attractions of dim sum bonds.
Countries with trade surpluses benefit from trade because they use the unspent foreign currency to invest in their prosperous trading partner.
Decisions like this will benefit all categories of emerging bonds, but particularly local currency bonds which are positioned to gain value on the back of currency appreciation over the long run.
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While the South Korean companies have had to battle with a rising currency, Japanese firms, which for a long time had a similar problem, are likely to benefit from the recent weakening of the yen.
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If one retains doubts about the benefit of trying anything other than gold, there is still an important reason to advocate private currency competition over a government gold standard, and that is the practical execution of the standard.
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