2 posts and columns on U.S. dollar

No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Get Apple to Say Anything Nice About a Netbook

in Media on July 21, 2009 at 3:32 pm PT

This is now an Apple earnings-call tradition: Analysts try their hardest to convince Apple executives to express interest in the booming market for cheap netbooks and Apple executives make it perfectly clear how much disdain they have for netbooks. But an $800 iTablet? That’s something else altogether…
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Beware The Strengthening Dollar

in News on August 14, 2008 at 9:41 am PT

The steady crumbling of the value of the U.S. dollar over the last two years has given a big boost to reported earnings at many U.S. companies that sell goods overseas in local currencies but report in dollars.