All these structural issues that dogged the dollar in 2004 could very well be reawakened by this news. The tone will be clearly dollar negative. |
As oil prices go below $60 per barrel, it should translate to yen strength. I think we are far closer to a top in dollar/yen and it is reasonable to expect a turn in the pair. |
Comments from various Japanese authorities suggest that the zero interest rate policy may remain in place longer than the market anticipates. |
Euro-dollar dropped about 40 points in the aftermath of the release but recovered some of the loss, reflecting the market's uncertainty about the veracity of the figures. |
Focus will soon turn to Monday's TICs report [on foreign capital flows] which could show the third consecutive month of foreign capital flows failing to offset the trade deficit gap. |
For a long time now the Eco Watchers Survey has been our favorite gauge of Japanese consumer sentiment. |
If the data starts to taper off, the market will begin to handicap a 5 percent top in interest rates. That would weigh heavily on the dollar. |
If you have a continuation of gains in commodities prices, the Canadian dollar will rise. There is some positive momentum going on for the Canadian dollar. |
Katrina's effect was far less destructive than initially feared. The true extent of the damage, however, may not be known until next month when the Labor Department will make adjustments to this preliminary reading, |
Reserve diversification by central banks has been a key driver of dollar weakness this year. |
Speculators took the words as a signal that China with its massive $760 billion of U.S. dollar reserves may move to diversify some of its assets into euros. |
The Canadian dollar is relentless moving forward. You also have very steady economic growth and a strong commodities cycle. |
The Canadian dollar is relentless. |
The country's 7.25% short term rates - the highest in the industrialized world - are choking economic demand with many analysts now predicting the possibility of a recession in 2006. |
The ECB is trying to walk a very fine line between its mandate to control the budding inflationary pressures in the euro-zone and its desire to nurture the nascent economic recovery in the region where the unemployment rates stands at nearly 10%. |