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The Dollar Is Dropping Sharply, Lifting Global Stocks and Commodity Plays

The Dollar Is Dropping Sharply, Lifting Global Stocks and Commodity Plays

All of a sudden, weak-dollar trades are working. At least 26 foreign-country exchange-traded funds are outperforming the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 so far this year, according to TradeStation data. Producers of commodities like oil and metals, which tend to track the...

Reopening Stocks Surge Back as the Post-Covid Summer Begins

Reopening Stocks Surge Back as the Post-Covid Summer Begins

The reopening trade is surging back as the summer vacation season begins and coronavirus infections plummet. Investors piled into stocks like energy, cruise lines and casinos on Tuesday. Those stand to gain from increased travel and economic activity as social...

The U.S. Dollar Is Tanking. Here Are Key Things For Investors to Know

The U.S. Dollar Is Tanking. Here Are Key Things For Investors to Know

The U.S. dollar has been sliding for months, potentially creating a different kind of market in 2021. Currency moves often change the way investors think about stocks. Company fundamentals can lose importance in favor of economics and interest rates. Commodity prices...

Here’s Your Ultimate Guide to Trading the Weak Dollar

Here’s Your Ultimate Guide to Trading the Weak Dollar

A perfect storm of forces is lining up against the U.S. dollar. Here are some key things for investors to know. First, even if you don’t trade currencies (and most people don't), they can have a big influence on the stock market. Moves in the foreign-exchange markets...

Global Assets Strengthen as Anxieties Fade and U.S. Dollar Weakens

Global Assets Strengthen as Anxieties Fade and U.S. Dollar Weakens

Global assets have advanced into year end as events and data turn more positive. Emerging markets, metals and energy have all outperformed the S&P 500 in the last month. That marks a sharp change from most of 2019, when investors worried about a global recession...

Greenback on the Brink as Fed Meeting and G20 Approach

Greenback on the Brink as Fed Meeting and G20 Approach

The U.S. dollar seems to be teetering before some events with the potential to drive it lower. The U.S. dollar index (@DX) has spent most of 2019 between 95 and 97.75. It broke down quickly from those highs in early June and is now squeezing into a potential triangle....

Why the U.S. Dollar Is Pushing to its Highest Level in Two Years

Why the U.S. Dollar Is Pushing to its Highest Level in Two Years

The greenback surged yesterday as America's growth prospects kept outshining the rest of the world. Futures on the U.S. dollar index (@DX) ended Wednesday's session at 97.86, their highest close in more than two years. Two broad forces seem to be at work. One's a push...

‘Weak Dollar’ Trades Appear Before Powell and the Fed

‘Weak Dollar’ Trades Appear Before Powell and the Fed

The market's embracing a "weak dollar" sentiment, looking for more easy money from Jerome Powell's Federal Reserve tomorrow. Copper (@HG), crude oil (@CL), silver (@SI) and gold (@GC) rallied earlier this morning before giving up some gains. Exchange-traded funds...