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Strong Dollar Is Hurting US Business
As the US Federal Reserve slowly raises interest rates, the dollar keeps going up. The result is credit problems in developing economies and a correction of the US stock market. The strong dollar is hurting US business for two reasons. It makes exported products more expensive for consumers outside of the USA and it makes profits collected in foreign currencies less valuable when repatriated to the USA.
CNBC writes that the strong dollar is largely at fault for the current dip in the stock market.
“It could be a challenge for the stock market in the fact that about 40 percent of the S&P 500 earnings are generated from outside the United States,” said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors. “As the dollar strengthens, that has certainly created risk to those earnings. Another thing that could be a risk is, as the global economy has been slowing this year, the rising dollar poses a problem for many countries outside the U.S., and that has contributed to the slowdown in growth. The question is whether the U.S. economy can withstand a slowdown in global growth, and I don’t think it can in the long run.”
But, the pain from a stronger dollar is not limited to US companies.
The Dollar Melt Up
Seeking Alpha also writes that a continuing dollar melt up is bad for stocks. But they also not the huge amount of outstanding debt in the world that is denominated in US dollars.