Currency hit to North American companies' third quarter results most in 10 quarters: report

Reuters

Published Jan 30, 2019 06:38PM ET

Currency hit to North American companies' third quarter results most in 10 quarters: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The negative effect of currency fluctuations on North American companies' results in the third quarter of 2018 was the most in 10 quarters, according to a report on Wednesday from currency risk consulting firm FiREapps.

For the third quarter, the collective negative impact of currency fluctuations on North American companies - including in the United States, Canada and Mexico - that quantified an exchange rate effect was $11.8 billion, FiREapps said in the report.

That followed four quarters of relatively low impacts.