81.   Japanese stocks rose on optimism strong sales overseas and a higher dollar will boost profits at exporters such as electronics maker Canon Inc.

82.   Key to the increase was improved productivity and the higher dollar -- factors which has helped buoy earnings of other oil companies.

83.   Key to the increase was improved productivity and the higher dollar -- factors which have helped buoy earnings of other oil companies.

84.   Other investors say they look for companies in Asia and Europe that are growing fast enough to make up for any problems caused by the higher dollar.

85.   Republicans are developing some alternatives that would be hundreds of billions of dollars higher.

86.   Still, traders expect the Japanese central bank -- perhaps in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Reserve -- to make a determined bid to push the dollar higher.

87.   Some traders were skeptical that another rate cut by Japan would be enough to drive the dollar higher.

88.   That assumption helped push stocks, bonds and the Canadian dollar higher today.

89.   That prospect helped push the dollar higher against the Japanese yen in New York trading.

90.   That sentiment has pushed the dollar higher.