Investors have been pouring money into dollar-denominated assets this year, where returns are higher.
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TOMOKO FUJII Global investors still like dollar-denominated assets. The fundamentals still auger for dollar stren...
DAVID MOZINA Most of (the holdings) are in dollar-denominated assets. They'll want to see how vulnerable it is to...
EDDIE O'SULLIVAN There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop...
BEN BERNANKE There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop...
BEN S. BERNANKE From an interest rate differential standpoint, that is positive for the dollar, but higher rates mig...
HUGH WALSH This is more a case of investors pouring money into the Japanese economy than a case of investors sc...
CARL WEINBERG In these difficult times, if we can allocate assets where they can produce higher returns, we will m...
DEAN BREEST If they diversify from the U.S. dollar denominated assets, it would lower the value of the U.S. doll...
CHRIS LOW Every day, foreigners need to acquire more than $2 billion in U.S. dollar denominated assets -- soon...
AXEL MERK Japanese investors are buying the dollar to purchase overseas assets, such as Treasuries.
LUKE WADDINGTON On balance, we believe companies will continue to grow their earnings, while buoyant liquidity and i...
ANDREW MILLIGAN There's just tremendous demand from Chinese individuals for assets to invest in. And the assets they...
ANDREW BERNARD Japanese institutional investors as well as mutual funds finally started to buy foreign currency-den...
YASUHISA ISHIDA What the current deficit does is make the dollar vulnerable. It means we could see a vicious cycle, ...
LARA RHAME The direction of the U.S. dollar: Since the economy shows signs of slowing, investors are worried th...
ALEX TANG Fukui will probably reiterate prospects for steady economic recovery. Even if Fukui says the same th...
ETSUKO YAMASHITA Indian equity investments have been an area where we have raised a lot of assets globally this year.
DOUGLAS EU Japanese individual investors continue to shun risk, and the notion of putting money into foreign as...
DAVID GILMORE Japan's interest rates are still low. The rate- differential story still attracts Japanese investors...
JUN KITAZAWA Investors are favoring lower-cost funds and are putting more assets into them.
DON PHILLIPS Investors are reluctant to take the dollar significantly higher and we are having thin markets. The ...
KAMAL SHARMA Investors are shifting their money to shares of companies that have positive earnings outlooks this ...
CHOI MIN JAI Japanese investors are buying overseas assets, seeking higher yields than at home. This trend will r...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been...
MATTHIEU GIULIANI Earnings have been better than expected. Investors are confident and there's a reallocation of asset...
MATTHIEU GIULIANI We're seeing the beginning of much higher prices, driven by problems with the dollar. People need to...
JAMES TURK The statement was a de facto acknowledgment that there is only a little room left for a further hike...
MASAKI FUKUI The dollar really needs very strong economic figures to get momentum. I can hardly see such strong d...
MASAKI FUKUI Combined with other economic data we've seen recently, it's safe to say the Japanese economy is main...
MASAKI FUKUI Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's...
MASAKI FUKUI Worse-than-expected trade-deficit figures could be fertile ground for dollar selling. Amid the alrea...
MASAKI FUKUI Japanese investors are going into Treasuries. The dollar is going to be very well supported.
LUKE WADDINGTON The emerging market dollar denominated debt market is going away, and at the same time there are a l...
GREG JENSEN Investors are closely watching if the euro-dollar falls into $1.19 on a closing-price basis.
TETSU AIKAWA The signals are not there for foreign investors to come and commit money at the fair when they may n...
JAMES JOWA This dollar rally is not over yet. The biggest investors are still putting their money in the U.S. a...
BENEDIKT GERMANIER If U.S. bonds seem rich to global (mainly Asian) investors in currency terms as the dollar appreciat...
DAVID GOLDMAN Investors have been conditioned to buy on the down days, ... Money continues to flow into the market...
DOUG MYERS Investors are now going to build a higher risk premium into their bottom line.
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down whil...
JEFFREY ALLEN This should support the dollar. Rate expectations have been the driving force in currency markets th...
BRAD JONES There already has been a drift away from U.S. assets by Arab investors. You may well have a further ...
ANGUS BLAIR Why do investors seem to care about 'billion dollar exits?' Historically, top venture funds ...
AILEEN LEE Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo...
TORU UMEMOTO In any geopolitical tension environment you're going to have people that are going to take their mon...
EMANUEL BALARIE Investors are confident the dollar will remain strong against the yen for the time being on the pros...
HIDEAKI KURIMOTO The weaker (gold-dollar) correlation late last year and early this year was due to the overwhelming ...
YINGXI YU Stocks with higher dividends keep luring investors ahead of the fiscal year end.
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO What I'm saying to foreign investors who have been putting a lot of money into this market is recons...
ANDREW STOTZ So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have bee...
JIM CANTALUPO The action this week does indicate that the recovery horizon has been pushed out further. Investors ...
ELVIS PICARDO A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have a...
EMANUEL BALARIE The stronger dollar pushed exporters' shares higher, triggering a broad rally. Strong buying momentu...
MAKOTO SAKUMA Some people are beginning to think the dollar will fall this year. There are numerous dollar-selling...
KOTA KIMURA Investors who had been less aware of mutual fund taxes had a rude awakening in 2000, when many funds...
DUNCAN RICHARDSON It's a bit early, but investors are already taking the impact of higher borrowing costs on stocks in...
MASAAKI ENDO The Canadian dollar is oversold. The economic fundamentals are still strong, which enticed investors...
REID FARRILL Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields ar...
AKIHIKO YOKOYAMA At the lowest end of the range, in India, the overall average expectation is dragged down by a consi...
JAY BENNETT Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII In the last year or so, investors have been oblivious to risk.
BILL FRIES Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children...
RICHARD LAMM We'll look to where the money went -- that is still ongoing -- and try to identify any assets that s...
MIKE SMITH Crude is down, but it's still much higher than it was last year, the same with natural gas. When inv...
MARTIN YOKOSAWA The main driver this week for the dollar has been the paring back of Fed rate expectations. The doll...
GREG ANDERSON Portfolio flows are very important for the Taiwan dollar. This support seems to have been removed an...
BEN SIMPFENDORFER Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit...
DAVID KORTEN In our own case, I think that the highest in the last three or four years, we have been roughly $3 o...
LEON COOPERMAN Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Our special teams have been phenomenal -- our punt returns, we've blocked five kicks and return two ...
WILLIE REID A lot of money is very sensitive to interest rate changes but also a lot of money has been put into ...
JAMIE SPITERI Spending money is like pouring water into sand and earning it is like taking water back from sand.
VIKRANT PARSAI There is better confidence in Asia. Corporate profitability is improving, unemployment is falling, w...
CHRIS REILLY The dollar is going to prove resilient, and we could see further gains. Higher rates have supported ...
NEIL MACKINNON Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Industry in general has come out of a period of recession. Businesses have accumulated cash and are ...
DICK WARD Snow's admission of central banks diversifying from dollars could be used as dollar-selling material...
TERUHISA TSUJI By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disru...
JAMES BUCHAN That's going to mean a whole lot of outside money pouring into Minnesota to try to influence the rac...
BRIAN MELENDEZ The company made some exceptional gains from its overseas operations, like the Australian transmissi...
ALEX TANG Brazil has never been more attractive to foreign investors. The fundamentals of Brazil are solid, an...
GUIDO MANTEGA He is playing both sides of the fence, and given where the dollar is and how strong it has been, peo...
HUGH WALSH Investors are still wary of diving back into this market.
KOJI MUNEOKA They take a much longer-term view of the returns from the assets they buy.
MARK PRESTON The prices are much higher this year, as more people are in need ... the demand is higher.
JOSEPH KUPPENS The cost of the expansion is higher than we expected, but diamond prices and demand have been buoyan...
ATUL LELE The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists ar...
WHITNEY TILSON If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well.
ANTJE PRAEFCKE Speculators and investors have the precious metals market in their tight grip and are just forcing p...
ROBIN BHAR The riskier the terrain,the higher the returns.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Private investors are basically selling their smaller assets and consolidating to fewer, larger asse...
HESSAM NADJI One-hundred billion is a big number but that's all it is. I don't pay much attention to bragging rig...
GUS SAUTER The longer-term trend for the dollar is higher for the balance of the year. The economy is doing fin...
JEFF GLADSTEIN If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well. The market expe...
ANTJE PRAEFCKE So far [investors] have been happy to do this but people are questioning whether it will continue.
PAUL DONOVAN It's a dollar more than last year.
CHUCK SMITH If this represents the start of an extended [dollar] slide, it may erode the attractiveness of dolla...
JOHN HANCOCK International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut.
JACK RODMAN Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dol...
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