At the summit, Mr Harper raised with Mr Obama Canada's concerns that the Buy America provisions in the multibillion dollar US economic stimulus plan could shut out Canadian companies.
Families in Mexico who depend on the income sent to them from workers abroad are also suffering from the unfavourable exchange rate of the Mexican peso against the US dollar - with the US dollar falling 8% this year.
Famous US investor Paul Tudor Jones has argued in a recent letter to investors that the US government should force a de-pegging of the RMB and Hong Kong dollar from the US dollar.
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The Powershares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund ( UUP) is designed to track the price and yield performance of the Deutsche Bank long US dollar futures index.
Iran's currency dropped 12% against the US dollar after the US unveiled fresh sanctions targeting its central bank.
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One PPP dollar is equal to 1 US dollar spent in the United States.
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Weakness in the US dollar should prop up the US market quite a bit.
The best way to go long the Dollar is with PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish ( UUP).
In addition, the lower the interest rate, the lower the US dollar and the more likely the US is to move towards running an export surplus.
The bet against the dollar is buying the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Down ( UDN), which moves higher tracking a basket of currencies including the euro versus the dollar.
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But if the Australian dollar falls to levels more in line with historical norms, of around 80 U.S. cents per Australian dollar, US Masters' investors will earn 30% more in profits when the fund sells its homes.
If an investor were to give us a dollar to invest, the positions that he would control would be possibly in excess of the dollar that he gave us, even though that 75 cents is part in investment grade securities.
To quickly explain why this view is certainly not ours, consider that our position is that the abnormally high consumption of US households during the 2000s was matched by an abnormally large trade deficit in goods and that feedbacks among, borrowing, consumption, the dollar, US long term rates, foreign reserve accumulation and other factors worked to keep these two effects moving in tandem.
Neither she nor anyone else in this hour-long programme mentions that on Monday the Zimbabwean dollar fell to 30 billion against the US dollar.
Doing so would remove the exposure to the weak US dollar, which is making Saabs more expensive to US consumers.
The Australian dollar has risen more than 8% against the US dollar since June making Australian goods more expensive to foreign buyers.
Yes, sure, if the yuan (or renmimbi, either name works) were to rise against the US dollar then yes, Chinese labour as expressed in US dollars would rise in price.
Once derided as the Pacific Peso, the Australian dollar has also been at historic highs against the US dollar, which is seen as totemic of the country's economic strength and resilience.
China may very well diversify away from the dollar and even US Treasury bonds, but it is hard to see any major government holder of US dollars going from a 95% dollar position to a 60% position, or even a 50% or lower position anytime soon.
The Australian dollar weakened slightly, dipping 0.7% against the US dollar, after the rate cut was announced.
As is apparent from the history of the US dollar, this issues have had a huge impact on the US currency.
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The dollar swooned 2% against the euro, with the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (UUP) ETF down 1.6%.
However, the Pakistani Rupee is currently some 94 to the US dollar, meaning the face value of the coin is about 1 US cent.
Chart Analysis : The PowerShares DB Dollar Bullish ETF ( UUP) follows the price performance of the Deutsche Bank Long US Dollar Futures Index.
When it comes to a discussion about a strong dollar and ETFs, the conversation will usually find its way to the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish ETF (NYSE: UUP).
Faced with negative real interest rates, rapidly rising inflation, and a chronically weak dollar, foreign holders of US Treasury debt and other dollar-denominated holdings may begin to lose their nerve.
It rose nearly 9% against the US dollar between June 2012 and April 2013.
The Japanese currency has lost about 20% of its value against the US dollar since November.
And this, Bitcoin enthusiasts say, give their currency a privacy edge over the US dollar.
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