A weaker yen is one of the only levers left to pull, and it’s being pulled.

He diminished the threat of intervention, and the market was then less fearful, and more willing to short the euro,

It may be difficult for the dollar to sustain the overbought levels it reached against the euro in the past year,

Intervention can be effective in the short term, but it doesn’t do much to arrest the bigger issues. The market would appreciate structural reforms, such as tax reform, labor reform and pension reform.

Few thought the United States would come in to begin with.

The price action of the past 10 years shows that while Japanese investors have been sellers of foreign securities from January to March, this has not been consistent with a strengthening of the yen.

The 50-basis-point increase in May, combined with the previous moves by the Fed, and weaker economic data should encourage them to wait.

But we think there are still some more weak economic data in the pipeline.

In the past, a number like that could have hurt the euro. But sentiment has changed now with the euro trending higher.

I think it may have weighed marginally on the dollar. I don’t know if you’re seeing any sustained effect on the currency.

We still think the yen is going to weaken further.

Buying euros and selling yen is a better way to trade the euro recovery story,

Suppose they are really successful in weakening the dollar. This could put downward pressure on U.S. asset markets ahead of the election.

We expect a softer tone to the data after the weakness in the August employment report,

The situation for Japan’s life insurers raised concerns about the financial sector in general, as well as the implications it could have for the Japanese economy,

The dollar is performing well across the board, and capital flows are still very much a factor,

There are still some signs of tightness in the labor market.

The annual deficit is going to get some press, given it’s a new record. But it’s not going to surprise economists and foreign exchange markets who have been following this for a while.

The European Central Bank is worried that weakness in the euro will result in inflation.

It is premature to believe that Middle East tensions have been resolved or that the equity markets have bottomed out,

The FOMC is likely to see balanced risks in the economy, with the threat of a sharp slowdown about equal to the threat of inflation,

The downgrade was not a big shock. It had been rumored for months,

It’s obvious the market isn’t buying into a weak U.S. economy story despite the unexpected softness in Friday’s data.

The euro rallied from mid-May to early June on the slower U.S. growth story,

The G-7 finance ministers could issue a statement saying, ‘We share Europe’s concern with the weak euro,’

Hourly earnings rose 0.4 percent, which is a pretty strong rise, and the unemployment rate fell back to 4.0 percent.

It’s not helpful for the dollar, but again, it’s not much of a surprise.

[The jobs number] doesn’t change the perception that the U.S. economy is working through the slowdown and that it will continue working it out for the rest of the year,

Meanwhile, the market already has recognized that the Fed is in a more-aggressive stance, so it is difficult to get more mileage out of that story.

At least the ECB showed that it is still willing to intervene to support the euro,

A Bush administration would want to post numbers that look as good as the Clinton-era numbers on the economy. Obviously, a weaker dollar would boost exports and help to stimulate growth.

This has resulted in an attractive real rate environment in the United States.

The euro will go up, … Market participants are waiting for more consistent evidence of a U.S. slowdown.

A soft-landing economic background is good for the dollar. The dollar has risen strongly since June on the improving economic outlook in the United States.

The idea that both prices paid and received rose is consistent with what the Fed has been saying a lot this week, which is that they are still concerned with inflation.

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I don’t know that the situation is so dire that they have to hike 50.

The GDP report calls into question any measurable landing at all

The ECB needs to reintroduce the threat of intervention,

In general, we are still looking for a deteriorating fundamental backdrop,

The consensus is the Bank of England will leave rates unchanged.

The euro is doing fine, … It is consolidating, but in general will continue to strengthen.

The data are not strongly arguing for a rise in rates.

Ultimately, we think the yen will weaken again, and Japanese investors will continue to look abroad.

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The Japanese economy is closer to a self-sustaining recovery, but it’s not there yet.

Most market participants didn’t believe there would be ECB intervention, let alone coordinated intervention with the United States,

U.S. growth is outstripping expectations.

It is a possibility that you cannot ignore,