Here are several reasons why a weaker dollar should not be overlooked.

Foreigners holding euros, yen, or Canadian dollars, which now have more buying power than the U.S. dollar, are apt to see U.S. markets as quite an attractive option compared to home, or other high priced currency countries.

U.S. exports look more attractive: U.S. companies that manufacturer capital goods for export are undergoing a resurgence. They now comprise 3.5% of the U.S. economy and the sector is growing at twice the speed of the economy as a whole. Why? The dollar effect.

Exports are running at a record pace, the highest in U.S. history. The U.S. is exporting $4.3 billion per day of goods and services. This is an increase of 60% over the last 5 years.

U.S. real estate appears inexpensive. British, Russian, and German investors have been buying office properties and houses in key U.S. cities. This may be helping to support real estate values in many U.S. cities and lesson the real estate crash.

Stocks of U.S. companies in certain industries are not excessively expensive by historic measures of P/E valuations. So, these companies look even cheaper to the British, the Russians, the Germans, etc., given that their currencies have more buying power.

U.S. retailers are getting a boost. Our weak dollar has made U.S. shopping expeditions so beneficial that foreigners can offset the price of their airline tickets by buying clothing and electronics in U.S. stores.

U.S. tourism gets a boost from a “cheap” dollar. Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and amusement parks in Florida are reporting record numbers of foreign visitors.

U.S.-based multinational companies, which sell abroad, get to stream revenues in from a higher currency, benefiting their profit and loss statements, boosting earnings - especially if their cost of goods and labor costs are denominated in a weaker currency.

Not all the news of the weakening dollar is thus bad. Also consider the ripple affect of, say, tourism. Money is spent on hotels, food, rental cars, which in turn stimulate other jobs and services. Globalization of currencies has a way of shifting demand from a high cost zone to a lower cost zone. Discounting political risk, this is a natural flow for capital to take. Capital will always look for the best return for the least risk and the U.S. apparently is a popular destination for global capital.

(Article written by
Rich Luchsinger of Sovereign International)

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Especially when talking about Morocco.

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We want to focus on today’s Morocco and on its future.

A few years ago, King Mohammed VI implemented the basis of a new strategy embracing Moroccan tourism. Its main purpose was to increase the flow of tourism with the goal of having 10 million tourists by 2010, as set up in a special tourist contract-program called the Framework Agreement. Because of this agreement several special tourist zones were created to promote investment in this sector.

Thanks to careful planning these new tourist zones are meeting international standards in terms of services and equipment, something which is proven by the constantly increasing interest of investors and developers and the presence of more and more tourists.

There was a special relationship in the past and now, once again, Americans are showing increasing interest in Morocco.

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