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Another milestone event is as recent as early 2005. This involved Warren Buffett the founder of Berkshire Hathaway (the fourteenth-largest U.S. company, according to the July 4, 2006 , issue of Fortune magazine).
When the financial media was pounding out news stories that the dollar was in trouble, Warren made a statement that he was heavily short the U.S. dollar.
Unfortunately, once he made that announcement, the dollar gained value and rallied for most of 2005.
If you did not do your own research or homework and blindly followed his advice, things did not turn out so well for you.
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What may have contributed to the dollar rally in 2005 and hurt Mr. Buffett's position was the fact that other players may have been preying on his position.
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is without a doubt a high-profile player. So when Warren Buffett announced he was going to cut back speculative positions against the U.S. dollar after losing profits due to surprising dollar strength, the buying to cover his shorts boosted the dollar.
Keep in mind that Mr. Buffett had bet that the dollar would continue losing ground, as it did in 2004; he felt the massive U.S. current account deficit would be dollar negative.
But instead, monetary policy dictated otherwise, as the Federal Reserve continued to raise interest rates.
That was helping to drive demand as the interest rate differentials widened. In its third-quarter report in 2005,
Berkshire Hathaway said it had cut its foreign-currency exposure from $21.5 billion to $16.5 billion.
That was a significant amount of selling foreign currencies and buying U.S. dollars.
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