11.   A stronger dollar helps exporters cut prices overseas and increases the value of profits when converted into yen.

12.   A stronger dollar helps Japanese exporters by making it easier for them to cut prices overseas.

13.   A strong dollar helps exporters by increasing the yen value of dollar-denominated profit and making it easier for them to cut prices overseas.

14.   A stronger dollar boosts the yen value of dollar-denominated profit and makes it easier for these companies to cut prices overseas.

15.   A stronger dollar helps exporters by increasing the yen value of dollar-denominated profits and making it easier for them to cut prices overseas.

16.   A weaker yen lets Japanese exporters cut prices overseas and expands dollar-denominated profit when repatriated.

17.   A weaker yen allows exporters to cut prices overseas.

18.   Drug stocks, considered a safe bet in a sluggish economy, also were hurt by mounting concerns that a stronger dollar could cut profits overseas.

19.   Even so, the big move of the dollar in the last year is still cutting prices overseas.

20.   Exporters gained as a group earlier in the year, boosted by a rising dollar, which helps them cut prices overseas.