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DON ALEXANDER The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
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NORIHIRO FUJITO For overseas investors, who bought large volumes of stocks last year, Japanese equities are no longe...
HIROSHI CHANO We are still seeing buying of interest-rate-sensitive stocks. Investors believe the U.S. economy is ...
FREDERICK TSANG It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO Japanese and foreign investors are now rushing to unwind yen-carry positions on concerns over possib...
MASAHI HASHIMOTO Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.
HIDEO MIZUTANI While there are concerns about the slowdown in the U.S. economy, what's keeping investors optimistic...
KOICHI SEKI The direction of the U.S. dollar: Since the economy shows signs of slowing, investors are worried th...
ALEX TANG Japanese investors are buying the dollar to purchase overseas assets, such as Treasuries.
LUKE WADDINGTON I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor...
KOICHIRO SUZUKI We are seeing a belief that the Japanese economy is recovering. The Japanese are going to keep their...
PAUL DONOVAN Stocks are only getting cheaper and cheaper, and the U.S. economy is strong as are corporate profits...
CLAES AHREL I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getti...
CLAES AHREL U.S. stocks have settled down, but data on the economy is getting worse. Investors are increasingly ...
MASATOSHI SATO Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Investors are now accelerating buying of domestic demand-linked shares such as property developers a...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI The Fed's interest-rate increase concerns are receding on the back of evidence growth is slowing. In...
YUTAKA MIURA We're seeing across the board buying after tame employment data out of the U.S., which is reducing p...
HERBERT LAU Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The Japanese are starting to get worried about the Korean brands for the same reasons the domestics ...
ART SPINELLA Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hi...
MASAMICHI KOIKE Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.
ANDRE BAKHOS There's not much buying interest in the market, as investors are worried that more companies with po...
GRACE LIN This is more a case of investors pouring money into the Japanese economy than a case of investors sc...
CARL WEINBERG There is growing optimism about the Fed's interest-rate hikes coming to an end. That would mean cons...
HIROFUMI KASAI With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscrimina...
FRANCISCO ANDRADE Overseas investors are selling their Nikkei stocks. This is yen negative for sure. Sliding share pri...
TETSU AIKAWA Investors need to be focused on buying bonds for the diversification benefits to stocks. If you are ...
MARIO DEROSE Japanese investors are buying overseas assets, seeking higher yields than at home. This trend will r...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA Stocks are down slightly because investors are worried about two things,
ALEX TANG The U.S. economy looks stable. Easing concern over interest rates prompted investors to buy back the...
ATSUSHI OSA Japan's interest rates are still low. The rate- differential story still attracts Japanese investors...
JUN KITAZAWA The dollar remains firm, as the absolute U.S. interest- rate advantage still continues to exist. Rat...
YUJI SAITO Some investors are betting that Hong Kong won't follow the U.S. rate hikes in May and are moving ahe...
FREDERICK TSANG Expectations for higher interest rates are solid now. No one doubts that the Japanese economy is imp...
HIROAKI MUTO On balance, the steady increase in payrolls in conjunction with yesterday's comments by [Fed] Chairm...
CHARMAINE BUSKAS The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Interest rate differentials continue in favor of the U.S. dollar and that is one of the big drivers....
HUGH WALSH Investors are scared of the impact of rising bankruptcies. And on top of that worries of a war in Ir...
KOICHI SEKI Investors are scared of the impact of rising bankruptcies. And on top of that, worries of a war in I...
KOICHI SEKI I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apa...
CASTOR PANG The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth ...
BRIAN ARABIA Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buy...
KENICHI AZUMA Investors are realizing they oversold last week. Tokyo stocks are still very much at the mercy of th...
HIDENORI KAWASAKI I think what we've seen over the last couple of months is an investor shift from being concerned abo...
JOHN ZIMMERMAN We're optimistic on the market as we head into the second half of this year and into 2001. We think ...
DAVID PRESSON Japan's power-generation equipment business, including nuclear power plants, has been shrinking as p...
YASUHIRO MATSUMOTO The data on the real side of the economy supports rate hikes.
DAVID KEEBLE I can't see them dashing back into equities. People have to be feeling raw about the whole state of ...
JAMES MONTIER I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t...
GRACE FEY Investors who were fearful of a further downturn in Tokyo stocks a while ago are now jumping onto th...
AKIHIKO SAKAKIBARA Foreign investors tend to be worried when there is talk of impeachment because they don't always und...
PETER CANELO The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked abo...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA There's a strong sensitivity now to interest rate increases, and high-priced stocks such as tech sto...
ED PETERS I certainly don't see this as the beginning of the end for the U.S. dollar and I don't see this as t...
CARL WEINBERG The moment investors confirmed the size of the rate hike, they jumped to buy stocks. Needless to say...
CARLOS HOKAMA
The short-term folks that are worried about earnings are providing us long-term investors some great... SHAWN JOHNSON The sooner U.S. investors can see the end of this current interest rate cycle the better.
ANGUS CAMPBELL Tech and telecom stocks are down following overseas markets. Old-economy stocks will perform better.
ALAN PAU We found that it is a type of psychological bias on the part of many investors that seems to drive m...
BING HAN U.S. interest rates aren't going to necessarily support the dollar anymore. Each interest rate hike ...
DON ALEXANDER The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI It's a bit early, but investors are already taking the impact of higher borrowing costs on stocks in...
MASAAKI ENDO Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo...
TORU UMEMOTO Strong economic figures will confirm the Japanese economy is doing better, reinforcing expectations ...
ETSUKO YAMASHITA I think investors are somewhat nervous about the economic data coming out. Once investors do become ...
DAVID PRESSON Funds with a short-term strategy are moving around. But the lack of visibility in the outlook for Ja...
NOBUAKI KURISU With semi stocks, if you're not buying when there are mistakes then you're chasing momentum and that...
CODY ACREE Markets can still rise. Stocks in Europe are fairly valued. They can compensate for a lot of interes...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER Although the market closed with a loss of over one percent on Friday, investors are taking a positiv...
DEEPAK SHAH The markets are buoyant on strong domestic fund buying and retail investor interest with sustained o...
ATUL HATWAR Investors are avoiding large-cap technology shares before Friday's SQ and GDP. Instead, they are pic...
HIROSHI SATO People in the market are staying on guard against advances in Japanese stocks after the rally in the...
EIJI DOHKE The stronger real helped a lot. Investors' money is still flowing to stocks from fixed-rate instrume...
ANTONIO MACHADO Short-term players are trying to book gains on dollar-short positions and there is also buying by Ja...
AKIHIRO TANAKA Apple's results are going to put a damper on stocks this morning. Investors are worried that it may ...
GIRI CHERUKURI When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. ...
DAVID GOLDMAN I think, you know, you're going to have these crosscurrents in place here for the next few months wh...
DAVID PRESSON Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is exp...
TAKASHI KUDO The market's noting that earnings are good, the economy is doing well, and yes, interest rates will ...
BRIAN BENSCH Worries about an interest rate rise have virtually disappeared, the consensus is now that the Fed wo...
DAVID HARMAN If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well.
ANTJE PRAEFCKE The news on U.S. Steel has prompted some buying of steelmakers. You cannot completely rule out the p...
KOJI UCHIDA The Japanese economy, as the approval of foreign investors has been showing, has undoubtedly improve...
MASAKI ISO What's happening is that consumers are worried about losing their jobs, and if consumers worry about...
PAUL DONOVAN The earnings reports have spin offs for stocks globally. The U.S. economy is the cornerstone of glob...
JASON TEH We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.
TOSHIHIRO WADA There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. The...
MARTIN ANGEL Foreign investors are stepping up purchases of Japanese stocks and that is the main reason the marke...
KOICHI SEKI Local fund investors bid up steel stocks, as they had a lot of idle money after unloading technology...
DAVID LI Expectations foreign investors will keep putting more money into Japanese equities are supporting th...
TETSU AIKAWA Foreign investors in particular are selling large-cap technology stocks like Sony. No one's worried ...
HIDENORI KAWASAKI
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business an... ALEX BERENSON There is this vague hope about the start of the new fiscal year ... I don't think institutional inve...
YOSHINORI NAGANO One message we get is that the stocks people buy when they're scared -- basic materials, beverages, ...
HUGH JOHNSON Some weaker-than-expected economic data is supporting the plight of equities (Thursday), ... With si...
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