US Dollar

The once-sluggish U.S. dollar is roaring back with vengeance. For the 90 days ended May 15, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish ETF (NYSE: UUP) returned 4.7 percent. While dollar strength is not yet pummeling international developed market equities, a familiar theme is emerging -- Some currency...

The U.S. dollar continued its 2017 decline through the first month of the new year, and some expect no immediate relief. The trend is welcomed by US Gold Corp (NASDAQ: USAU) CEO Edward Karr. “It should be a really good year for gold,” Karr told Benzinga in a recent interview. “I...

Currencies are a popular investment class that allow for speculation on price movements, just like bets on other asset classes. Foreign exchange, or forex in short, is a decentralized global market where currency pairs are traded. Currency trading takes place electronically over-the-counter across...

August wasn't a great month for stocks. It was the first month of 2017 the S&P 500 finished lower, but some other asset classes shined. Exchange traded funds dedicated to industrial and precious metals were among last month's most durable performers. “In August, the Dow Jones...

The euro has traded below $1.20 versus the U.S. dollar since January 2015 — that is, until Tuesday. The shared European currency has now gained more than 14 percent against the U.S. dollar since the start of 2017 but has many investors questioning where the strength is coming from. The...

For the time being, all of the drama coming from the White House is merely a "big headache" for investors, according Kathy Lien, managing director of foreign exchange strategy at BK Asset Management. All of the political headlines coming from the Trump administration resulted in a major...

A weaker U.S. dollar and stronger euro aren't compelling enough to reassure European investors, even at a time when the European Central Bank's Mario Draghi is touting the region's "robust recovery," Bloomberg reported. The euro is trading near its highest levels seen since January 2015, yet at the...

The U.S. dollar has lost 7 percent of its value against a basket of international currencies but this could prove to be a catalyst for certain stocks, Erin Gibbs, a portfolio manager with S&P Global said during a recent "Trading Nation" segment. One of the better-positioned sectors to...

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates earlier this week, marking the second time this year that the U.S. central bank has boosted borrowing costs. That move by the Fed has helped the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP), widely viewed as a dud this year among developed market...

Interest rates are rising in the U.S., but remain well below an area that's considered historically average. In other major developed markets, benchmark borrowing costs are at or near record lows, or in some cases, negative. That is to say investors in ex-U.S. developed markets are looking for...

Gold investors are already familiar with one of the most commonly used gold exchange traded funds, the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD), which is designed to track the price of gold net expenses. A new gold related ETF was introduced on Monday (by the same fund operator State Street): the SPDR...