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BENJAMIN PEDLEY We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
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BESA DEDA The Fed did not change its upbeat view of the U.S. economy. The dollar-bullish trend will continue.
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TORU UMEMOTO Interest-rate support for the Australian dollar will lessen quite substantially as the year progress...
NICK BENNENBROEK It seems the U.S. housing markets remain overheated. This will give the Fed another reason to keep r...
JUN KITAZAWA The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG I don't think the Fed are going to signal any kind of pause in rate increases next week. There's no ...
IAN GUNNER Narrowing interest-rate differentials with the U.S. will continue to hit the Australian dollar.
BENJAMIN PEDLEY As the expectation is growing that the US Fed may end the rate hike cycle as early as its March meet...
DAISUKE UNO The Fed is close to the end of its rate hike cycle while the ECB is just beginning, which removes su...
CARSTEN FRITSCH Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going for...
DAISUKE UNO The ECB could never argue in the way the Fed did in justifying its most recent rate cuts, by citing ...
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JARROD KERR I find it difficult to believe the Fed will not continue to view strength in the U.S. economy and co...
ANDREW BRENNER The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declinin...
KURT KARL The market has believed that next year the Fed will ease down while the ECB amps up its rate hike cy...
GREG SALVAGGIO The market has to make its mind up what the Fed rate cut means.
JANE FOLEY We're basically just seeing a little follow-on from Friday's unemployment report. The dollar has bee...
BRIAN DOLAN We won't see big moves today in anticipation of the FOMC statement. The risk is out there that the F...
DAVID MANN The Fed will definitely be raising the rate at the end of this month, and it's certainly possible we...
KORNELIUS PURPS A lot of the focus is on whether the Fed will pause or continue with their measured pace of raising ...
HUGH WALSH The Fed will probably slow the pace of interest-rate hikes after October. Should the reports signal ...
TETSU AIKAWA It's starting to appear that the Fed will continue to tighten and that bodes well for the dollar. We...
JEFF GLADSTEIN Strong job figures will surely reinforce the view the U.S. economy remains robust enough for the Fed...
TORU UMEMOTO I think there was a knee-jerk reaction on the part of market participants who were hoping and wantin...
DENNIS FERRO China has been looking quite independently to make its regime more flexible. There will be a move to...
BHANU BAWEJA Investors are confident the dollar will remain strong against the yen for the time being on the pros...
HIDEAKI KURIMOTO The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate incr...
MAMORU ASHIMOTO We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry t...
JOE ABATE The dollar's bearish (weaker) trend is expected to continue unless the GDP figures are significantly...
YASUHISA ISHIDA The green light is there for the Fed to continue to raising rates. No doubt about it. The Fed may go...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely...
JOSEPH SHATZ My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a st...
SHERRY COOPER The dollar's uptrend accelerated after the release of the Fed minutes and will remain firm before th...
AKIHIRO TANAKA Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN It's unclear when the Fed will stop raising interest rates. Even if the rate hike comes to an end, H...
LOUIS WONG The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI Clearly the outlook for the currency markets, and in particular the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate w...
ALAN WILLIAMSON The dollar's uptrend accelerated after the release of the Fed minutes and will remain firm before th...
AKIHIRO TANAKA The market has clearly accepted the notion that the Fed will back away.
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KELLY JONES Now market participants are saying that investors should expect range bound trading to continue into...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The market has got itself into a far-too-dovish spot given the tone of the Fed-speak. There is poten...
STEVE PEARSON The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to...
CRAIG ALEXANDER Fundamentals will determine the level of dollar-yen, and the fundamentals still argue for a higher d...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY It's difficult to see the rand strengthening further from current levels because rates are going aga...
ION DE VLEESCHAUWER The U.S. labor market continues to tighten and the implication is the Fed will need to raise rates. ...
GAVIN FRIEND It would depend on the UK's GDP (last year). Number one the nominal GDP growth and number two the ex...
CHEN XINGDONG Yields are going to continue to trend upward as the Fed keeps raising rates. The Fed believes that t...
JOSEPH SHATZ Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO There's been dollar weakness as people have scaled back rate expectations. The market has got the im...
ARMIN MEKELBURG But clearly any view on the Fed now is dependent on how the data comes through and hence we can expe...
STEVE BARROW The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked abo...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER The Chinese probably concluded they have far too much exposure to the dollar, and that the dollar ha...
PARESH UPADHYAYA Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Going forward, inflationary concerns will only gain steam, the U.S. dollar will continue its downwar...
EMANUEL BALARIE Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH We primarily see dollar strength because we're expecting one to two more rate hikes from the Fed. Al...
KATHY LIEN We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN I think Greenspan basically said the obvious, that long rates are too low and against his desire for...
BEN HALLIBURTON It's extremely bad and this is bearish for the U.S. dollar. This will definitely shift expectations ...
KATHY LIEN It's extremely bad and this is bearish for the U.S. dollar, ... This will definitely shift expectati...
KATHY LIEN The Fed is likely to make no change in its rate policy because it still see risks in the economic ou...
RICHARD RIPPE If the Fed continues to raise rates, adjustable-rate mortgages will continue to get pinched. That's ...
DANIEL JESTER We believe that the US Fed will make its final rate hike in the current cycle at the Jan 31 FOMC mee...
DAISUKE UNO More rate cuts may not be forthcoming, but the Fed is also not likely to start raising rates as quic...
ANTHONY CHAN![]()
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian...
CRAIG FERGUSON It looks increasingly like the Fed rate hike cycle is coming to an end, and that's been the focus. ....
CHARMAINE BUSKAS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... [Overall, following the statement,] the market is fairly clear that the Fed will keep raising rates ...
JEFF KLEINTOP The disappointing GDP means the Australian dollar will be vulnerable. This takes the Reserve Bank's ...
CLIFFORD BENNETT I think the chance of a double-dip recession is remote. We have a lot of stimulus in the pipeline fr...
GLENN HUBBARD My feeling is that while there may be a mention of (a
stronger Canadian dollar), it's not going...
DAVID POWELL It was a slightly negative day, partly because of waiting for when the Fed will start raising rates,
LARS KRECKEL The stronger dollar pushed exporters' shares higher, triggering a broad rally. Strong buying momentu...
MAKOTO SAKUMA It has become more difficult to help the North, but we will continue to provide support.
CARDINAL CHEONG![]()
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The euro has been the victim of an ever widening interest-rate differential to the dollar, a dynamic...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The things that helped support the dollar over the last 18 months or so, such as the Fed interest ra...
BRIAN ROSE It really reinforces the view that the Fed will continue to hike rates.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS The FX market is watching interest rate markets and short- end yields have come off and that's becau...
DANIEL KATZIVE If the core rate doesn't get out of hand and growth comes in moderate, at some point fairly soon the...
PATRICK FEARON We think the Fed will continue cutting rates, although less aggressively. We are expecting another [...
BRUCE STEINBERG I expect yields to continue drifting higher. Anything that shows the jobs market is strong gives mor...
JOSEPH SHATZ The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER We will see stronger consumption. It needs a brighter outlook, and that has clearly materialized in ...
KLAUS LIEBSCHER Gold has pulled back from its recent spike to around $505 an ounce while the rand has strengthened t...
FERDI HEYNEKE
CARSTEN FRITSCH Given the market is looking for another rate hike at the end-March FOMC meeting, it seems likely tha...
ASHLEY DAVIES Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will con...
DON ALEXANDER
The main driver this week for the dollar has been the paring back of Fed rate expectations. The doll... GREG ANDERSON We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
BENJAMIN PEDLEY We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
BENJAMIN PEDLEY We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
BENJAMIN PEDLEY The chances of a rate hike will underpin the dollar. Even though the Fed is coming to the end of its...
BESA DEDA The Fed did not change its upbeat view of the U.S. economy. The dollar-bullish trend will continue.
JUNYA TANASE The dollar has reversed its course because concerns over an imminent end to the rate hikes have star...
TORU UMEMOTO Interest-rate support for the Australian dollar will lessen quite substantially as the year progress...
NICK BENNENBROEK It seems the U.S. housing markets remain overheated. This will give the Fed another reason to keep r...
JUN KITAZAWA The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG I don't think the Fed are going to signal any kind of pause in rate increases next week. There's no ...
IAN GUNNER Narrowing interest-rate differentials with the U.S. will continue to hit the Australian dollar.
BENJAMIN PEDLEY As the expectation is growing that the US Fed may end the rate hike cycle as early as its March meet...
DAISUKE UNO The Fed is close to the end of its rate hike cycle while the ECB is just beginning, which removes su...
CARSTEN FRITSCH Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going for...
DAISUKE UNO The ECB could never argue in the way the Fed did in justifying its most recent rate cuts, by citing ...
ERNST WELTEKE The interest-rate advantage with the U.S. will continue to narrow and that will weigh on the Austral...
JARROD KERR I find it difficult to believe the Fed will not continue to view strength in the U.S. economy and co...
ANDREW BRENNER The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declinin...
KURT KARL The market has believed that next year the Fed will ease down while the ECB amps up its rate hike cy...
GREG SALVAGGIO The market has to make its mind up what the Fed rate cut means.
JANE FOLEY We're basically just seeing a little follow-on from Friday's unemployment report. The dollar has bee...
BRIAN DOLAN We won't see big moves today in anticipation of the FOMC statement. The risk is out there that the F...
DAVID MANN The Fed will definitely be raising the rate at the end of this month, and it's certainly possible we...
KORNELIUS PURPS A lot of the focus is on whether the Fed will pause or continue with their measured pace of raising ...
HUGH WALSH The Fed will probably slow the pace of interest-rate hikes after October. Should the reports signal ...
TETSU AIKAWA It's starting to appear that the Fed will continue to tighten and that bodes well for the dollar. We...
JEFF GLADSTEIN Strong job figures will surely reinforce the view the U.S. economy remains robust enough for the Fed...
TORU UMEMOTO I think there was a knee-jerk reaction on the part of market participants who were hoping and wantin...
DENNIS FERRO China has been looking quite independently to make its regime more flexible. There will be a move to...
BHANU BAWEJA Investors are confident the dollar will remain strong against the yen for the time being on the pros...
HIDEAKI KURIMOTO The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate incr...
MAMORU ASHIMOTO We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry t...
JOE ABATE The dollar's bearish (weaker) trend is expected to continue unless the GDP figures are significantly...
YASUHISA ISHIDA The green light is there for the Fed to continue to raising rates. No doubt about it. The Fed may go...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely...
JOSEPH SHATZ My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a st...
SHERRY COOPER The dollar's uptrend accelerated after the release of the Fed minutes and will remain firm before th...
AKIHIRO TANAKA Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN It's unclear when the Fed will stop raising interest rates. Even if the rate hike comes to an end, H...
LOUIS WONG The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI Clearly the outlook for the currency markets, and in particular the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate w...
ALAN WILLIAMSON The dollar's uptrend accelerated after the release of the Fed minutes and will remain firm before th...
AKIHIRO TANAKA The market has clearly accepted the notion that the Fed will back away.
LARRY SEIBERT
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it WALLACE STEVENS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Now market participants are saying that investors should expect range bound trading to continue into...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The market has got itself into a far-too-dovish spot given the tone of the Fed-speak. There is poten...
STEVE PEARSON The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to...
CRAIG ALEXANDER Fundamentals will determine the level of dollar-yen, and the fundamentals still argue for a higher d...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY It's difficult to see the rand strengthening further from current levels because rates are going aga...
ION DE VLEESCHAUWER The U.S. labor market continues to tighten and the implication is the Fed will need to raise rates. ...
GAVIN FRIEND It would depend on the UK's GDP (last year). Number one the nominal GDP growth and number two the ex...
CHEN XINGDONG Yields are going to continue to trend upward as the Fed keeps raising rates. The Fed believes that t...
JOSEPH SHATZ Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO There's been dollar weakness as people have scaled back rate expectations. The market has got the im...
ARMIN MEKELBURG But clearly any view on the Fed now is dependent on how the data comes through and hence we can expe...
STEVE BARROW The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked abo...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA The difference is depth, and the difference will be depth if Arizona State goes against Duke. Duke g...
CINDY FISHER
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. CATO THE ELDER The Chinese probably concluded they have far too much exposure to the dollar, and that the dollar ha...
PARESH UPADHYAYA Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Going forward, inflationary concerns will only gain steam, the U.S. dollar will continue its downwar...
EMANUEL BALARIE Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH We primarily see dollar strength because we're expecting one to two more rate hikes from the Fed. Al...
KATHY LIEN We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN I think Greenspan basically said the obvious, that long rates are too low and against his desire for...
BEN HALLIBURTON It's extremely bad and this is bearish for the U.S. dollar. This will definitely shift expectations ...
KATHY LIEN It's extremely bad and this is bearish for the U.S. dollar, ... This will definitely shift expectati...
KATHY LIEN The Fed is likely to make no change in its rate policy because it still see risks in the economic ou...
RICHARD RIPPE If the Fed continues to raise rates, adjustable-rate mortgages will continue to get pinched. That's ...
DANIEL JESTER We believe that the US Fed will make its final rate hike in the current cycle at the Jan 31 FOMC mee...
DAISUKE UNO More rate cuts may not be forthcoming, but the Fed is also not likely to start raising rates as quic...
ANTHONY CHAN
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian... CRAIG FERGUSON It looks increasingly like the Fed rate hike cycle is coming to an end, and that's been the focus. ....
CHARMAINE BUSKAS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... [Overall, following the statement,] the market is fairly clear that the Fed will keep raising rates ...
JEFF KLEINTOP The disappointing GDP means the Australian dollar will be vulnerable. This takes the Reserve Bank's ...
CLIFFORD BENNETT I think the chance of a double-dip recession is remote. We have a lot of stimulus in the pipeline fr...
GLENN HUBBARD My feeling is that while there may be a mention of (a
stronger Canadian dollar), it's not going...
DAVID POWELL It was a slightly negative day, partly because of waiting for when the Fed will start raising rates,
LARS KRECKEL The stronger dollar pushed exporters' shares higher, triggering a broad rally. Strong buying momentu...
MAKOTO SAKUMA It has become more difficult to help the North, but we will continue to provide support.
CARDINAL CHEONG
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The euro has been the victim of an ever widening interest-rate differential to the dollar, a dynamic...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The things that helped support the dollar over the last 18 months or so, such as the Fed interest ra...
BRIAN ROSE It really reinforces the view that the Fed will continue to hike rates.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS The FX market is watching interest rate markets and short- end yields have come off and that's becau...
DANIEL KATZIVE If the core rate doesn't get out of hand and growth comes in moderate, at some point fairly soon the...
PATRICK FEARON We think the Fed will continue cutting rates, although less aggressively. We are expecting another [...
BRUCE STEINBERG I expect yields to continue drifting higher. Anything that shows the jobs market is strong gives mor...
JOSEPH SHATZ The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER We will see stronger consumption. It needs a brighter outlook, and that has clearly materialized in ...
KLAUS LIEBSCHER Gold has pulled back from its recent spike to around $505 an ounce while the rand has strengthened t...
FERDI HEYNEKE
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