Kikuko Takeda
Kikuko Takeda
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Markets are rapidly abandoning the forecast for the Fed to increase rates to 4 percent by year-end, and are instead pricing in 3.75 percent. People are worrying lofty oil prices and Hurricane Katrina might hurt the U.S. economy when weaker data continue to come out.
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The domestic market view is that Japan's monetary policy will be unchanged at this meeting and there won't be many signals in governor Fukui's speech for foreign investors trying to find some clues.
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Clearly one factor that has supported the dollar will disappear. So it's better to be cautious about the dollar's upside potential.
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The widening trade deficit is negative for the dollar. We see no way for the U.S. trade gap to narrow.
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What we saw in Tokyo today shows that a small consolidation in the dollar is likely because of this technical resistance.
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The price range for the past two weeks was a bit overdone. We need a little bit of time to adjust at this level.
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What's on peoples' minds is the possibility of a slowdown of the U.S. economy given the accumulation of rate hikes in the past year and a half and on higher oil prices,