20 Quotes by Boris Schlossberg

The yen remains the preferred funding currency for carry trades. The Swiss franc was the alternative and now it's become less attractive.

This 'man in the street' poll of barbers, taxi drivers and waiters offers some of the best clues to future Japanese consumer spending.

For a long time now the Eco Watchers Survey has been our favorite gauge of Japanese consumer sentiment.

The interest rate differential will be materially larger. It will attract a lot of capital into U.S. dollars.

The Canadian dollar is relentless moving forward. You also have very steady economic growth and a strong commodities cycle.

If you have a continuation of gains in commodities prices, the Canadian dollar will rise. There is some positive momentum going on for the Canadian dollar.

The euro has been the victim of an ever widening interest-rate differential to the dollar, a dynamic that has hurt the currency over the past six months as the carry spread now stands at 175 basis points against it.

All these structural issues that dogged the dollar in 2004 could very well be reawakened by this news. The tone will be clearly dollar negative.

The ECB is trying to walk a very fine line between its mandate to control the budding inflationary pressures in the euro-zone and its desire to nurture the nascent economic recovery in the region where the unemployment rates stands at nearly 10%.