33 Quotes by Niels Christensen

Sentiment against the dollar is deep-rooted. Every time we have a pullback in euro/dollar new buyers emerge.

No one can find a good reason to buy the euro at the moment. The only thing that could turn the tide is intervention, possibly accompanied by soft U.S. data.

No one can find a good reason to buy the euro at the moment, ... The only thing that could turn the tide is intervention, possibly accompanied by soft U.S. data.

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX (foreign exchange) markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

Given that the dollar was unable to really bounce on the back of lower than expected trade deficit yesterday, it seems a bit unlikely that even if the retail sales show nice gains that (it) will be able to really benefit from such data.

It got a boost from comments from Poole overnight so that brought euro/dollar down by half a big figure.

It is more a squaring of positions than suddenly people seeing anything positive about the dollar. Intervention has a limited and short-lived impact. It has not started an uptrend in dollar/yen.

Japanese officials make statements like that when we see very rapid movements in the foreign exchange markets because they are concerned such moves can build into stronger trends.