Ben Eisen

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Weak Dollar Pumps Corporate Results, For Now · 30 Apr 2018 podcast

You've got the economy continuing to strengthen.

You've got the Fed looking like it might raise rates faster, or at least people starting to think they could if inflation picks up.

All these factors tend to drive the dollar, and that's what you're starting to see bounce back.

But notably, this bounce back in the dollar has really started just over the last month.

So when we look at companies that are reporting financial results, they're reporting it during a period in which the dollar has been falling.

And then only since that period has ended has the dollar bounced back.

Definitely.

We'll have to see how this looks going forward.

You've seen the dollar rise about 2% over the last month, but it could rise more.

And if it rises as much as it's fallen in the past, it's something that companies will definitely have to be paying attention to.

You start to see companies try to hedge changes in the currency and factors like that.

And that's something that we could see going forward.

Thank you.

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Companies Sit on More than $2 Trillion in Cash · 18 Apr 2018 podcast

Yeah, definitely.

It's up to $2.4 trillion, which is a record for a time like this.

And it's something that's sort of been climbing over the last few years during this post-crisis period as companies have become more profitable.

But now it really is at very high levels.

Yeah, absolutely.

And there's a lot of questions about what companies are going to do with this cash, and I think that those questions are coming more to the forefront this year because we've had this tax code overhaul, which is likely to bring a lot of that cash back to the U.S., whereas it was stashed abroad so that some of these companies didn't have to pay the U.S.

corporate tax rate.

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