1.   Although many U.S. exporters have been able to overcome the disadvantage of a rising dollar, they suffer from the inability of weakened trading partners to buy their goods.

2.   An effective overlay hedge against a rising dollar could be achieved by selling deutsche marks and yen in the forward market.

3.   Analysts had predicted higher profits chiefly because of the rising dollar and its effect on the earnings on exporters in general.

4.   Another penny a share was lost due to the rising dollar, which means that overseas currencies translated into fewer dollars, the company said.

5.   As a result, countries like Thailand, Korea and Indonesia, whose currencies were pegged around the rising dollar, became much less competitive.

6.   Blue-chips stocks showed a strong gain, helped by the rising dollar and gains in bonds.

7.   Bonds climb on expectations a rising dollar will bolster international demand for higher-yielding U.S. debt.

8.   A rising dollar allows a Japanese investor to bring home more yen after converting the return on a Brady bond investment into the Japanese currency.

9.   A rising dollar also helped bonds, traders said.

10.   A rising dollar also weighs on bonds because it relieves pressure on Japanese exporters to raise prices, boosting their earnings and potentially stimulating the economy.