Dollar's foreign value can affect nearly all of us

Consider the dollar's changing value when investing in global companies

Consider the dollar's changing value when investing in global companies

The “Big Mac Index” suggests a new long-term trend for the Chinese yuan while the US dollar tries to bottom.

The UAE will keep its currency peg to the US dollar even after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the world’s biggest economy, and Oman sees no risk in investing in US treasuries, officials said yesterday.

ABU DHABI : The United Arab Emirates will keep its US dollar peg in the aftermath of S&P’s downgrade of the world’s biggest economy, a central bank official told Reuters on Sunday, and saw no credit risk in investing in US treasuries at present.

Mad Money host Jim Cramer provides traders with all manner of investing advice.

It’s time to face reality that everything is for sale in this country.

U.S. stocks gained this week, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first close above 12,000 since June 2008, as corporate earnings, an expansion of American and Chinese manufacturing and an unexpected decrease in the unemployment rate overshadowed unrest in Egypt.

Treasuries tumbled, pushing 10-year yields to the highest since May, as an unexpected drop in the jobless rate and data showing growth by factories and service industries fueled bets the economic recovery is gaining steam.

Raj Rajaratnam wants jurors at his insider-trading trial told that he was a professional stock analyst who broke no laws by speaking to corporate insiders as he worked to “ferret out” information.

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