Macroeconomics 11th Edition by Stephen Slavin

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Practical Application: Anne Hilbert has been hired by a Washington think tank to predict the trend over the next decade in the weighted average exchange value of the U.S. dollar. Its record from 1994 through early 2013 is shown in Figure 5; she needs to provide evidence to back up her conclusion.
F igure 5
Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index* 1995-2013
*Averages of daily figures. A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners. Broad currency index includes the Euro Area, Canada, Japan, Mexico, China, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brazil, Switzerland, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Sweden, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, and Colombia.
Source: http://research.stlouis.org/fred2/series/TWEXB.