Lynn Loring, a flight attendant for American Airlines, has been coming to Paris for 18 years, and at times when the dollar was strong, she says, "All I did was shop." But last week, walking around the Galeries Lafayette department store, she was doing more looking than buying. The reason: the dollar has been sliding against the euro, and that's making everything much more expensive for her. "I'm so depressed," she says.
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American Christmas shoppers in Paris aren't the only ones suffering from sticker shock. The dollar fell to a near-record low of $1.33 to the euro at...
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