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Another day, another dollar decline for businesses. That's a two-sided coin.

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In Baltimore, I'm Amy Scott in Forkye Ristall. It's Monday, April 24th. Good to have you with us.

The week just begun is a big one for corporate earnings. We'll hear from a lot of tech companies

in particular, including Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, but also UPS, PepsiCo, and Boeing.

Analysts tuning in, the earning calls will be listening for any color on job cuts and the prospects

of a recession. One factor that could be boosting profits at many big US companies this year is

the weakening dollar. Marketplace's Justin Ho has more. Up until around last September,

the dollar's value had been rising. That's because a lot of investors were buying US government

bonds, which paid more interest, thanks to the Federal Reserve's rate hikes. But when we enter the,

you know, later part of 2022, when we go into that fourth quarter, all of a sudden,

the other central banks begin to catch up. That's Christopher Vecchio, head of futures in foreign

exchange at the options researcher Tasty Life. The dollar's value has been falling in the time

since, especially since this year, the Federal Reserve is slowing down its rate hikes.

And now we're seeing other central banks like the ECB and perhaps even the Bank of England,

having to do a little bit more to fight inflation than previously anticipated.

A weaker US dollar makes American products more competitive overseas.

Santos Rau and Manhattan Venture Partners says companies also get more dollars when they bring

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