Foreign operations contributed to strong second-quarter results in recent weeks from a number of companies, ranging from giants like General Motors Corp. and Citigroup Inc. to smaller manufacturers like Harley-Davidson Inc. Part of this upswing can be traced to a weaker dollar, which creates an automatic gain when a company translates overseas profits back into now-devalued greenbacks.

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