NEW YORK -- The dollar and the yen are lower versus most currencies early Monday in New York as riskier assets get a boost from the U.S. president-elect's infrastructure plans to get the economy humming again.
In his weekly radio address, Barack Obama vowed to make the single largest investment in the country's infrastructure since the 1950s, when the federal highway system was created.
This, combined with apparent agreement within the U.S. government to provide some type of rescue to the ailing auto sector, has caused U.S. stock market futures to soar ...