71. Concerns that a rising dollar will stunt overseas profit growth hurt many stocks, including Golden-based Coors. 72. Earlier, bonds gained as a rising dollar enhanced the attraction of U.S. securities for overseas investors. 73. Exporters such as audio equipment maker TEAC and Canon Inc. got a boost from optimism a rising dollar will increase revenues from overseas sales in terms of yen. 74. Exporters benefit from a rising dollar because it lets them lower prices overseas and grow more competitive. 75. Even so, a rising dollar hurts some U.S. companies by making their exports more expensive, and foreign imports cheaper. 76. Exporters and automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. gained as a rising dollar boosted optimism for overseas earnings. 77. Exporters gained as a group earlier in the year, boosted by a rising dollar, which helps them cut prices overseas. 78. For dollar-based investors a rising dollar can erase any gains made on Japanese stocks. 79. For overseas investors a rising dollar can erase returns earned in Japan. 80. Foreign demand for Treasury securities caused by the rising dollar also pushed prices higher. |