Some investors have piled up their euro holdings rapidly this week, overreacting to the Fed minutes. This long-euro position won't last.
Osamu Takashima
Related
Euro weakness could be more powerful than renewed dollar strength because sovereigns could refrain f...
MANFRED WOLF We expect the ECB to hike rates this week. These are good levels to re-establish long positions in t...
MONICA FAN Surely it does not look like this euro has any upside momentum whatsoever. There is inherent pressur...
MANFRED WOLF This is why Europe is still an unattractive venue for offshore investors, and why the euro is as che...
CARL WEINBERG This is why Europe is still an unattractive venue for offshore investors, and why the euro is as che...
CARL B. WEINBERG A half-point move by the Fed would push the euro down to new lows.
ANDREW CHAVERIAT This made investors cautious and they decided to unload their holdings ahead of the weekend.
TERRY CHEUNG Accepting the
bid also implies that investors miss an expected 500 million euro special dividend ...
HANS SLOB We have seen this in the early payment by Russia of Paris club debt and the increase in euro in thei...
DAVID BLOOM Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Investors are closely watching if the euro-dollar falls into $1.19 on a closing-price basis.
TETSU AIKAWA The euro is alive and well. The euro is here to stay.
AMELIA TORRES This can be attributed to the slowdown and restraint ahead of the euro.
DOMINIQUE BARBET Some people saw (the 1-euro jobs) as a welcome way of working and achieving some form of dignity. Bu...
CONSTANZE STELZENMUELLER Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if maj...
MARIO DRAGHI Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a s...
EVANGELOS VENIZELOS A break of 6.20/dollar this week looks inevitable as euro/dollar buying on dips targets 1.2630 then ...
CAROLINE GORMAN Euro semiconductors are the weakest sector today. So it's extremely likely that some of that negativ...
BEN FUNNELL Euro semiconductors are the weakest sector today. So it's extremely likely that some of that negativ...
BEN FUNNELL We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this c...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN Euro-zone data flow this morning will encourage further hawkish rhetoric from the ECB.
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Can interest rates shore up the euro? Not so far,
CLAUDIO PIRON This shows the continuing recovery of euro zone manufacturing at the start of quarter four,
LUKE THOMPSON We marked up forecasts for the euro area and Japan. It's just a sense that these economies, especial...
DAVID HENSLEY I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN The market continues to focus on the lack of yield in the euro-zone, keeping the euro on the defensi...
CHARMAINE BUSKAS The thought that... I would say anything on the euro other than what's the government's position is ...
DENIS MACSHANE The euro has clearly accelerated some people's focus on cost-saving synergies.
IAN HARNETT The Greek people do not want to exit the euro. And I believe the Greek people already have shown tha...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than...
TOMOKO FUJII I think it's going to show up in some comments. I think you will get some comments that (earnings) w...
CHUCK HILL This (euro weakness) is only the consequence of an economic situation that is not well defined,
ROMANO PRODI It's hard to like the euro,
FIRAS ASKARI Some investors chose to lock in profits after most of the listed companies announced their first-qua...
DIANA WU Long-term players are content to stay short the euro, and will sell into any rally attempts.
ANDREW CHAVERIAT If you look at Fed funds futures for December, they are indicating that the Fed will take a breather...
ARTHUR HOGAN Investors are trying not to build up big positions this week.
DENNIS LEUNG I think the break of the big level last week ... has changed the behavior of a lot of long-term inve...
DANIEL KATZIVE Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and ...
MARIANO RAJOY This up leg should be quite strong because gold was previously regarded by many investors as 'just a...
DAVID FULLER The smart thing to do long term in this environment is to invest in the strength of our brand name a...
BOB DIENER I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember...
ALLY CONDIE I have never said I would adopt the euro. Not today, not tomorrow, not in five years. We will introd...
EWA KOPACZ The data gives investors hope the Fed won't have to stay aggressive too long.
JEFF PALMA If the euro fails, Europe fails.
ANGELA MERKEL Normally that would strengthen the euro.
TOM BENFER So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of ...
HELMUT KOHL The dollar has strengthened notably versus the euro in the past week, which will undoubtedly help pr...
MARTIN BROOKER The euro is at a critical stage. It is trying to get back to 97 cents and then parity later this sum...
ANDREW CHAVERIAT We're seeing good demand for the euro.
BRIAN ARABIA Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in th...
MARIO DRAGHI If the ECB has to intervene regularly to support the euro, it is sending the wrong message to the pu...
DAVID GILMORE There's optimism we will see quite good numbers out of Germany and any good data will encourage euro...
TETSU AIKAWA The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
MARINE LE PEN The euro is being assaulted on all fronts,
ENRICO CARUSO The ECB probably won't do very much, maybe one or two rate hikes, and if the Fed keeps tightening th...
BESA DEDA All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyfu...
HANS BOS We are not at all worried about the euro.
AMELIA TORRES The euro/dollar hasn't technically broken out, but it seems to have broken the recent pattern,
JOHN MCCARTHY I'm optimistic for euro-zone growth this year. We should see higher yields, with a target between 3....
GUILLAUME SCIARD Evidence is accumulating that growth in the fourth quarter slowed in the euro zone. Two-year bonds s...
BERND WEIDENSTEINER I interpret your question as applying more to financial stability in the euro area than to the euro ...
JEAN CLAUDE TRICHET After we failed to break the year's lows against the euro, people decided to take some money off the...
CARSTEN FRITSCH The French riots are also not helping the euro,
IAN GUNNER They'd rather see the dollar weak against the euro,
MICHAEL SPENCER The euro will go up, ... Market participants are waiting for more consistent evidence of a U.S. slow...
BOB LYNCH De facto, you have a multi-speed Europe. You look at the Schengen, you look at the euro zone, all th...
EMMANUEL MACRON There are concerns that the revival in euro zone business confidence has been driven by the external...
DARAGH MAHER By the end of this week Zimbabweans will have driven a message home to Mugabe that they are fed up w...
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro.
ADNAN AKANT This really puts the spotlight very acutely on the Fed minutes this afternoon.
LARA RHAME As you see you can't change what has happen in past if I could I do my best to don't happen in other...
DEYTH BANGER I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
VICTOR PONTA The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other int...
GERHARD SCHROEDER The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would h...
BARRY EICHENGREEN We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN China's major trading partners are the United States, the euro land, Japan, Korea, etc., and natural...
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN When drugs itself are a treatment, what further treatment do you want.
APURVA GAGLANI She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a no...
ALICE MCDERMOTT I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People wer...
SARAH DESSEN Coraline nunca había comprendido qué motivo había llevado a alguien a pintar un cuenco con frutas...
NEIL GAIMAN The market opportunity for this type of storage is growing rapidly, and Cornice is in a prime positi...
CAMILLO MARTINO You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have ...
NICK CLEGG We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for ...
NICK CLEGG The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked abo...
ROBERT C. SOLOMON Kevin (Richardson) opened things up with the run last week. This week it was the pass. (Defenses) ha...
DEXTER JACKSON Bath will be disappointed from last week when Bristol managed to get the game at the death. We have ...
BUDGE POUNTNEY Selling pressure on tech sector is relatively heavy as investors continue to unload their holdings d...
JEFFREY CHENG A coalition of this kind would hurt the reform process considerably, and that's worrying the market....
CARSTEN FRITSCH I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis ...
C. JOYBELL C. The last week they just had this massive charge where a bunch of their stocks just rocketed up.
PAT SCHNEIDER After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
ANIBAL CAVACO SILVA Senator Kerry carries shrapnel in his thigh, as distinct from President Bush, who carries two fillin...
JOHN PODESTA There's a chance the euro has seen its high for the cycle and Asian currencies have further to adjus...
BOB SINCHE European economies are picking up. The German economy in particular is expanding, shown in yesterday...
ETSUKO YAMASHITA I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five
thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis
...
OLASOT The euro doesn't look like getting out of its recent range.
MASAMICHI KOIKE
More Osamu Takashima
With the Mother Earth and Father Sun here to witness I give you my everlasting oath. My body is crea...
KAZUSA TAKASHIMA I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...
OSAMU DAZAI Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothi...
OSAMU DAZAI I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, trul...
OSAMU DAZAI This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.
OSAMU DAZAI Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes
his head as h...
OSAMU DAZAI Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggerati...
OSAMU DAZAI He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...
OSAMU DAZAI All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is ...
OSAMU DAZAI For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretc...
OSAMU DAZAI It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man ...
OSAMU DAZAI To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, a...
OSAMU DAZAI When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...
OSAMU DAZAI Because of fears over an early end to the quantitative monetary easing policy and overrated speculat...
OSAMU TAMADA I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...
OSAMU DAZAI To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions a...
OSAMU DAZAI The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded ...
OSAMU DAZAI Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the o...
OSAMU DAZAI I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want ...
OSAMU DAZAI As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, ...
OSAMU DAZAI What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?
OSAMU DAZAI People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world,...
OSAMU DAZAI [...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristo...
OSAMU DAZAI Given the continued improvement in labor and wage conditions of late and the likelihood that that wi...
OSAMU KATANO