{"id":9317,"date":"2016-01-07T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:31:12","slug":"strong-dollar-1112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=9317","title":{"rendered":"Strong Dollar (11\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Going back to the middle of 2014, the dollar has been very strong. <!--more-->This increases the price of our exports and therefore hurts multi-national corporations that sell all over the world. So far it hasn\u2019t hurt too much, but odds favor the dollar remaining at a high level or breaking out and continuing its uptrend. Japan, China and many other countries are devaluing their currency to help boost exports, so the US is stuck with a strong currency. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> If the dollar breaks out and legs up, it\u2019ll be harder for stocks to do the same. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/usd010716.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Agree\/Disagree? Comment below. And click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/email-subscribe.cfm\">here<\/a> to join our email list to get reports just like this sent directly to you.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/space.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"1\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/redirect.cfm?affID=5230\"><img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/banners\/lb-468x60-1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going back to the middle of 2014, the dollar has been very strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}