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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesTHE DOLLARNo Longer A Safe Haven
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- During past global crises, nervous investors around the
- world followed a simple course of action: they bought dollars,
- the classic safe-haven currency. Not this time. As tensions
- increased in the gulf, the U.S. currency finished trading in
- New York last week at a 42-year low of 1.55 German marks to the
- dollar.
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- The unloading of the dollar reflects the precarious
- condition of the U.S. economy, which may be in a recession. The
- government provided further evidence of trouble last week when
- it reported that the Consumer Price Index rose a steep 0.4% in
- July. The surge, which came before the gulf crisis drove up oil
- prices, indicated that the U.S. could be headed for its worst
- round of economic stagflation -- the painful combination of
- falling growth and rising inflation -- since the 1970s.
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