I was under the impression that the Euro and the Pound were likely to fall in the near to medium term and I saw something about the Australian dollar declining but I don't recall the source. Generally speaking, doesn't the dollar rise when other currencies fall?
BTW, they found a major oil field in Alaska. It has the potential to pump 200k barrels a day.
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In total the site is
expected to hold 6 billion to 10 billion barrels of oil, of which about 2.4 billion are recoverable.
The site is in shallow waters in
Smith Bay, near the northern tip of Alaska.
Caelus said that if the discovery turns out to be real, the field would be more fertile than the Alpine unit run by ConocoPhillips, Alaska's largest oil producer, which began production in 2000 and peaked at 139,000 barrels a day in 2007.
http://www.businessinsider.com/caelus-oil-discovery-in-alaska-arctic-2016-10