Why is the dollar so strong? Chalk it up to a healthy US economy – particularly as much of the rest of the world has weakened – and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes. A country’s ...

The U.S. dollar is, in a real sense, the money of moneys — that is, in many ways it is to other national currencies what money in general is to other goods and assets. Most of us rarely engage ...

The dollar is getting stronger. While that may sound like something to be happy about, a runup in the value of the dollar can ripple through the economy in unexpected ways. WSJ’s Julia-Ambra ...

So the dollar should be on the way down, right? Sign up here. Analysts say a number of factors are probably at play. One is that a range of worries - about the U.S. debt ceiling negotiations ...

The dollar is getting stronger. While that may sound like something to be happy about, a runup in the value of the dollar can ripple through the economy in unexpected ways. WSJ’s Julia-Ambra ...

largely because the dollar is used so widely. Importers and exporters write contracts in dollars because everyone else does and hold dollar balances to make those payments. And so on. Forty years ...

Once the Federal Reserve begins cutting interest rates, the U.S. dollar will surely fall and begin a downtrend, right? Alas, it's never so simple. Check out the chart below from Kit Juckes and ...

Why is the dollar so strong? Chalk it up to a healthy US economy -- particularly as much of the rest of the world has weakened -- and the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes. A country's ...