DOLLAR INDEX (25 YRS)

Ever wondered what the dollar looks like over a long period of time.  Bar Chart provides a chart of the Dollar Index ($DXY) over a 25 yr period.*  The Dollar Index is how the dollar trades against a basket of currencies.  The Euro constitutes about half the index because of all the countries that used to be involved but now are in the Euro.

You will note that the Dollar Index today is just about what it was in the early 1990s.  The steep strengthening of the Dollar Index was during the latter 1990s, the Clinton years, of a greatly expanding economy.   The recent steep strengthening is during the Obama recovery years from the Great Recession.  Note the weakening of the Dollar Index mainly occurred before the Great Recession.

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* http://www.barchart.com/chart.php?sym=$DXY&t=BAR&size=M&v=0&g=1&p=MO&d=X&qb=1&style=technical&template=