Airbus secures $20 billion order for A350s and A380s

[Angus]

Falling Dollar means that exports from the USA will be better off basically.
If the Dollar was now sharing the curves with the Euro, the competition between Boeing and Airbus would be markedly more favourable to the Airbus.
Hence the speculation.
However, that is a somewhat short lived one, - albeit with a lot of money involved.
A country with the currency falling endlessly is going to suffer an economical screw-up. INFLATION.
While this is tried and tested in some 3rd world countries, as well as Germany in the 30's, I wonder what that would do to the USA of today.

[john9001]

Originally posted by Viking
Yes, if the once mighty Dollar continues to free-fall it will have serious global repercussions.

yes, the US will start selling cheap toys to china.

[Angus]

Oh, not quite.
But anything cheap you are importing will not be as cheap.
You would have to chop down the dollar a lot to compete with China there.
While the USA has more efficiency in production, bear in mind that the Chinese don't take the US lifestandard for granted.....their hours are long, badly paid, and the consumption (although growing) is laughable compared to the US...

[AKIron]

Originally posted by Angus
Oh, not quite.
But anything cheap you are importing will not be as cheap.
You would have to chop down the dollar a lot to compete with China there.
While the USA has more efficiency in production, bear in mind that the Chinese don't take the US lifestandard for granted.....their hours are long, badly paid, and the consumption (although growing) is laughable compared to the US...

We'll have to sell them to Europe then where we won't have to chop down the dollar and our hours make us look like china comparatively. You want regular or unleaded?

[Brownshirt]

Some in here (like me) have waited that price of American cars would get lower due the cheaper dollar but it looks like importers won't lower the prices but increase their own share.
However US manufacturers will get paid by dollars so it's lose/lose situation for American car manufacturers and only winner is importer.

[john9001]

allot of "imports" are built in the US.

[Angus]

Lower dollar means (for the USA) that importing stuff is more expensive, and for export, the USA will get more $ pr.unit.
Don't know where you live Brownshirt, but where I live, American stuff has been growing on the market due to the weak position of the $.
You can buy a lot of things from the USA now for quite a good price.
However when you go mechanical for instance,it gets worse, - we are a Euro-metric country, and  even the TV system is different. So lots of more advanced US products do not fit so easily. If common, it's okay, - like cars.
Standards...aircraft.
Crudes like Cheerio's...yes.
DVD's, players for those, electrical gadgets etc etc, - the US does not match.....us.
The results I see from a weakened dollar is mostly big fat cars.