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...sent a chill through currency markets last week, apparently reversing the Bush Administration's "strong dollar policy" when he said he didn't see "anything troubling" in the dollar's plunge of 20% over the past year. The buck promptly hit a four-year low of $1.10 to the euro. And while Snow spent the next day scrambling to "reiterate my support for the strong dollar," it plumbed new lows throughout the week - pushed down by a huge 300,000 increase in U.S. unemployment during February. That's bad news for Europe's exporters, for whom the dollar's drop...
...We’ve had a line out the door from day one,” Pappas says. “Lo Fat Know Fat has attracted everyone from bodybuilders to a Euro crowd, from people on Weight Watchers to the Atkins diet...
Rank and Bile Size matters, Brits crowed, when the U.K. overtook France in 1999 to become the world's fourth-biggest economy. But with the British pound down nearly 5% against the euro since January, and the U.K.'s ?1 trillion gross domestic product falling in value against France's GDP as a result, the French may soon be able to claim it was a grande illusion. If the pound falls less than 1% more, to 0.68 to the euro, France will again take the lead. To which Brits will surely reply, "It's really growth that counts...
Pravda 116 :: Understandably, it’s not quite the same as having throngs of freshman biddies show up right to your door, but Pravda 116 is a magnet for the super chic and Euro-hip women of Boston. In this time of frosty transatlantic relations, Pravda’s continental attitude is perfect for a club in which one out of three members respond “mais oui, la semaine dernière” to the question “have you showered recently...
...months that ended Jan. 31, stocks in the U.S. fell an average 23%, while stocks in Europe fell 32%. But because the dollar weakened--down 20% against the euro--U.S. investors would have been better off in European stocks, which in dollar terms lost only 18%. What lies ahead? Forces that have been knocking down the dollar remain in place, notably a growing trade deficit and a run of terrible investment returns on dollar-based assets that are scaring foreign investors into keeping their money at home. Looking ahead a year, many pros believe the buck will...