"Lower dollar = higher equities should have been the case all along, a strong dollar is a headwind for US large caps with operations/sales overseas, it has never been positive for stocks. The pumpers needed a story to sell to the masses so I think the rhetoric changed somewhere along the way and the lemmings were made to believe that a strong dollar is good for stocks."
so, this low US dollar should bring higher equity prices and
also, steady higher crude prices