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Allowing a little more currency appreciation can be quite desirable for the sake of the Chinese economy and the region as a whole. The Chinese economy is quite resilient. At the same time, foreign exchange reserves are rising fast.

Absolute rates are still higher in Canada and it's a very strong performer when commodities are booming. It would be my pick for the currency to bet on based on higher oil prices, even more so than Norway.

It's easier to name China a currency manipulator now that they have been singled out on an international stage. There is considerable scope for the yen to strengthen.

It's a step in the right direction, although not a big step, ... helps stabilize the currency for a while, but it's addressing the symptoms why the currency's weak, not the causes why the currency's weak.

It's a big mistake not to label China if the U.S. law has any meaning. They are still intervening massively to keep their currency from rising. I don't see how you can not define that as manipulation.

It is sort of an astonishing act to have a government counterfeiting the currency of another. It's also the case that the quality of this particular counterfeit currency is quite good.

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

It is the consensus of the committee that the problems with the county's budget will not be solved by mere generation of additional revenue. Unless other meaningful, timely and substantive actions are taken to curtail budget growth, a repetitive crisis of currency and citizen confidence can be anticipated.

It partly depends on the currency regimes in place in the country.

It's not that clear cut that intervention will have an impact, ... What appears to be driving down the euro are money flows out of the euro zone. If this is the case, it is not the optimal moment for currency intervention.

It's no surprise that the pressure is back on. At the end of the day, China allowed their currency to appreciate, but because they did so only marginally, there is disappointment elsewhere.

For many companies we're not talking about a lot of organic growth. If currency strengthens, as I expect it will, it brings into question whether companies can make their second-quarter numbers.

Foreign investors will consider this as a step from the government to level the field for foreign competition and free capital for more efficient use. But it is a tricky situation now. The currency will move to a spot lower if the news is considered a negative for growth.

Foreign buyers started considering Argentina when we devalued our currency and property values dropped 40 percent. Those values have only just recovered to 1997 levels, and with airfare from Miami only $700 round-trip, we are drawing in a lot of Florida investors.

It's the relative-competitiveness angle. If China has a currency that is going to appreciate, then your currency becomes more competitive relative to China and your exports should do better.

It's less words that count, it's what happens, ... We're anxious to see the underlying value of the currency better reflected in the marketplace.

It's an incremental step to develop its foreign-exchange market and make its currency more transparent. The central bank has been heavily involved in the market and will probably still intervene.

It's good for the U.S. to see a relatively weaker dollar, but it's not a good idea for the U.S. Treasury to signal it wants a weaker dollar. The decline in the U.S. currency could be faster than they wish.

It's got to be the yen. That is the currency with the lowest yield and borrowers can be comfortable that the BOJ is not going to significantly boost their funding costs over the course of the year.

It's really to create a currency that they can use for acquisitions. Goldman is looking at a number of strategic ways for them to expand into different product areas.

It's unreasonable to expect currency movements to affect trade balances when you have all these other disequilibria like wages.

Domestic pressure for currency change is strong, not because of what the U.S. is saying, but because it's in China's own interests to move. Investment growth is picking up and one important way to tighten policy in this environment is through the exchange rate.

The New Zealand dollar continues to be hampered by the recent swag of weak economic data. We suspect the currency will continue to come under pressure.

The October panic is hitting more than the world's equity markets; it is hitting the currency markets, too.

It's something we're watching, but not with great concern, ... I think there is room in the world for another major currency and this was one is certainly welcome.

Everybody knows they (investors) want to buy high yielding currencies and the yen still seems like the best currency to sell to fund that.

The big drivers of the currency are commodity prices and interest-rate increase expectations.

The biggest challenge is definitely on the currency side.

Stocks are going to be under some pressure over the next six to nine months. Revenue growth is very modest, and that's going to dampen profit margins, as will the currency translation with the stronger dollar.

Stock options are a red herring, ... The issue is excessive compensation for executives in whatever currency is used -- stock, money, apartments and whatever else.

Stock inflows are likely to continue, strengthening the Taiwan dollar. There's a higher chance of the currency rising.

The Bank of Japan is going to be on hold while the Fed and the ECB are proactively raising rates. The yen is the hardest currency to buy.

The Australian currency may rise to US80c over the next month.

The administration's policy on the dollar is unchanged. A strong dollar is in the national interest. Currency values should be set in open, competitive markets.

It's a must for financial security to avoid drastic fluctuations by keeping the currency and exchange rate stable.

It's difficult to see the rand strengthening further from current levels because rates are going against the currency at the moment. The interest rate outlook favors the dollar over the rand.

It's denying the Castro dictatorship of the currency that it needs, of the money that it needs to sustain its dictatorship. It has done that in very dramatic ways,

Not all of America uses Ronald Reagan airport, but all of America uses our currency, ... We have used currency to commemorate great leaders in our past. It seemed to me this was a good way to do it.

It's to protect our currency and to protect people's hard earned money.

It will enable us to fully participate in the development of the FX market, while providing more flexibility for our clients. We believe this is another important step for the advancement of China's currency market.

It will be seen as a green light for further currency strength.

They (China) ship a lot of goods to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart pays for these goods in dollars and manufacturers in China trade these for China's local currency and eventually the dollars work their way into China's central bank.

The Wall Street types want to make the United States attractive for investment, and a strong currency attracts investors.

The volatility of international equity, interest rate and currency markets has the potential to significantly alter the value of the funds' assets.

The U.S. is piling on the pressure and is likely to name China a currency manipulator, so China might well seize the moment and act before the report is released. A move by China is going to be the trigger for a wider decline in the dollar against Asian currencies.

The U.S. economy is simply stronger than that of most of our trading partners and modest currency movements have proven insufficient to remedy the balance.

The US currency has come under pressure on speculation of a pause in the US monetary tightening cycle together with the increase in the US current account deficit, which the market usually shrugs off.

They instead will pay $10 million in local currency into a trust fund in Peru that will benefit conservation.

The yield story favors the dollar. The BOJ made as minimal a change as they possibly could; the yen is still a very low-yielding currency and there's competition for yield.

They kicked him, they beat him around the head and shoulder (areas, and) one tried to stab him with a knife. He was robbed of currency (and) had some personal jewelry torn from him.

After that, after the central bank sets interest rate policy, you may start seeing the real impact of the end of the currency limits.

It's not clear how China will deliver further currency flexibility but certainly the pace of appreciation of the Chinese currency has picked up.

Any upside in the greenback today may be mitigated by tomorrow's (Friday's) trade balance figures, which are the key release of the week. If they show a larger-than-expected deficit for June, dollar selling will dominate the theme in the currency markets.

Sharp declines in the government?s external debt indicators and structural improvements that, over time, should help Pakistan?s export capacity motivated the change in outlook for the foreign currency rating.

Excluding the impact of currency changes, futures grew 11.4%, a significant acceleration versus the 8.3% constant-dollar growth we reported last quarter,

The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.

The failure of China to permit its currency to move, as most other countries in the world are doing, leads to a major protectionist trade reaction here in the United States.

The Canadian dollar still gets support from oil prices. There is still room for the currency to improve.

The Canadian dollar is seen as a commodity currency and metal prices have been going up across the board, commodity prices are up.

The Canadian dollar is getting less support from crude oil. The currency has been considered a petro currency, so if gains in crude oil prices stall, it weighs on the Canadian dollar.

The Canadian currency tends to track closely with gold and oil. If gold and oil break out and gain more strength, it will be supportive to the Canadian dollar.

The Canadian currency is still performing very well especially in the face of a slightly disappointing retail number. The Bank of Canada's meeting next week will be the focus. A rate hike next week is most likely.

The Canadian currency is considered a commodity currency. When commodities prices are up, investors tend to have exposure to the currency.

The Chinese yuan isn't a reserve currency at all, let alone 'the' reserve currency. We're a very long way away.

In general it's a healthy profit taking move for the EM market, and for the domestic markets in Latin America as the stock and currency markets are coming off.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

In Japan's case, back in 2003-2004, they feared the yen would drop too much in value and they intervened heavily in the currency markets. Then, Japan ceased intervening over the last year or so -- but this didn't have much of a negative impact on U.S. markets.

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

I have no doubt the Euro will be the world's major reserve currency in five to 10 years. If not the major one, it will be at least as important as the U.S. dollar.

I have never thought that what a government wants its currency to do makes a hill of difference. What's holding the dollar up is a desire to put money here and a faith in Greenspan and Corporate America. That's all psychology, and it can turn on a dime.

In 2001, the company faces concerns that economic softness in the United States could worsen and expand into non-U.S. markets, ... Increasingly aggressive price competition and the potential effects of ongoing adverse currency movements are other areas of volatility.

I must have seen 200 girls out of the 3,000 we auditioned. It was hell. In the end we had our own currency for the girls we saw. We would ask - how many ships could she launch? It was 212, 380, so on and so forth, but as soon as we saw Diane we knew we had the right face.

I'm not surprised to see the currency take a little bit of a pause heading into the weekend.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

If (the portal strategy) works, this business looks like our publishing business, it looks like our TV business, it looks like our local cable advertising business, ... If this doesn't work, then you start to think about AOL much differently. You start to think about AOL in somewhat the same way I think about the cable company...it would have its own currency to go out and do acquisitions or other deals.

If U.S. bonds seem rich to global (mainly Asian) investors in currency terms as the dollar appreciates, they will take profits on the appreciated assets.

I fully expect that the Chinese officials will address these tension points, but will not waver from their steadfast commitment on a medium- to longer-term basis of an open capital account and currency convertibility,

If you discount the 12 cents a share currency loss, the company's earnings actually came in 2 cents above expectations.

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

In such instances, funds held offshore may potentially exceed the R750Ê000 ceiling, which limits the amount of funds which may be taken offshore via the vehicle of private foreign currency accounts. The situation as it is, is thus inequitable and will have to be addressed by government at some stage.

In such instances, funds held offshore may potentially exceed the R750 000 ceiling, which limits the amount of funds which may be taken offshore via the vehicle of private foreign currency accounts. The situation as it is, is thus inequitable and will have to be addressed by government at some stage.

I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy.

In the short-term the currency is going to take its lead from the U.S. 10-year Treasury notes. All the focus is on the U.S.

Investors are unable to get a clear view on 2006 because there's so much noise in the numbers. There's the competitive environment in Spain, there's the impact from Kraft activities and there were currency swings. It doesn't in any way impact the progress made on the domestic product.

Investors are confident the dollar will remain strong against the yen for the time being on the prospect that the Fed will continue to raise interest rates. That view lured money into technology stocks that are sensitive to currency fluctuation.

Investors are anxiously awaiting tomorrow as the data could increase volatility in the currency and other markets.

Investors will be looking for the implications (of Brazil) on currency markets.

Interest-rate advantage is still the only game in town for the currency markets. There's no doubt the dollar can gain further.

Internationally, our business improved as compared with the prior year as a result of our business re-engineering efforts and improving economics in much of Asia Pacific. In Europe, we experienced market share gains in several countries and are pleased that for the sixth consecutive quarter we reported growth in our backlog on a local currency basis when compared to the prior year. During 1999 we took steps to reduce our operating costs by simplifying many business processes and focusing our efforts on fewer activities.

If your interest rate is relatively low then there is only really one way of getting the balance of payments to balance in the medium to long term, which is to offer more of your currency at each time of asking for foreign capital.

By increasing in-region development and procurement, these companies can better adapt to US tastes and preferences while insulating themselves from currency fluctuations.

By highlighting the exceptional performance of AT&T's fast-growing wireless operations, we are confident that investors will see the value of this business, ... That unlocked value, which will be reflected in the tracking stock, will provide us with the currency to take advantage of the outstanding growth opportunities available in the wireless industry, including fixed wireless, wireless data and international expansion.

Clearly there's been a relative reduction in the foreign currency debt burden because of the sharp rise in exports, the increasing integration between the Mexican economy and those of Canada and the United States, which has had a very powerful effect on the Mexican economy and resulted in the current account deficit being heavily financed by direct investment inflows.

Clearly the outlook for the currency markets, and in particular the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate will be critical to the outlook for the gold market,

Buying momentum is quite strong, stimulated by robust earnings. We have been witnessing how the currency move is boosting exporters' profits.

He's the one who's been advocating a move toward a currency board, concentrating foreign exchange earnings and doing a variety of things, including an across-the-board tax cut,

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

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