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I'm David Brancaccio.

First, the U.S. dollar has been climbing up about one and a half percent against other major currencies in the days after Donald Trump's victory.

A euro cost just over a dollar six now. Marketplaces Mitchell Hartman

looks at the thinking and the effects. First off, the dollar's strong because of global

macroeconomic fundamentals, says Gary Schlossberg at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

U.S. growth is holding up better than it is overseas. China is struggling. Europe skirt at a recession,

but growth continues to lag. A strong economy here attracts investments from abroad, into stocks and

bonds, for instance, because they deliver a higher return. It's also significant when the

dollars started rising most recently, says Jay Hatfield at Infrastructure Capital Advisors.

It was in late September.

That's roughly when the betting markets started to anticipate a Trump victory.

Hatfield says investors expect a pro-business agenda.

The market's perception is that both the deregulation and lower corporate

taxes will spur U.S. growth, which might lead the Federal Reserve to slow its interest rate

cutting, says Joseph Gagnot at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

And that makes it all more attractive to foreign investors. Going forward,

another factor could keep the dollar strong, says Gary Schlossberg. There's that safe haven role

for the dollar, to the extent there are geopolitical uncertainties. Which there are a plenty,

from the South China Sea to Ukraine to the Middle East. I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.

After hitting an all-time high yesterday, Bitcoin's market price is down slightly today in the 87,700s now.

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