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Mitt Romney's Swiss bank account is back in the news, and Americans are wondering why he has money in the famous tax haven. But if "Swiss bank account" makes you think of criminals, secret agents and tax dodgers, your ideas are more fiction than fact.

The dollar-stocks see-saw -- in which the two move in opposite directions -- seems to be holding up. And over the longer term, there's good reason for the dollar to stay on its recent upward trend, which would be bad news for stock prices.

As the Dow struggles to hold 10,000, the remarkable thing is how resilient U.S. equity markets remain. The jobs data may be grabbing the headlines, but the real news is the euro has caught swine flu. That's why the dollar is up -- and stocks are straining.

The U.S. economy is out of the frying pan and into the fire, Warren Buffett writes in an op-ed piece in the New York Times today. The very actions that saved the financial system from the brink of ruin now threaten the long-term health of the dollar. "The United States economy is now out of the...

We've heard a lot of saber rattling recently about the need for an alternative to the dollar from Russia and China, but that talk was put to rest when Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told the world that the dollar was in "good shape" and there's no need for a substitute for the world's...

When the markets tanked, there was a flee to safety. Investors abandoned stocks and bought "risk free" assets in droves. Now that the market is rallying, is this still a good idea? According to John Roque, a "technical analyst" at Natixis Bleichroeder, investors should keep the bulk of their money...