Word: weak
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...beleaguered U.S. dollar isn't getting much love these days, except from one small but powerful group: deep-pocketed institutional traders, who are piling into dollars with ever greater enthusiasm because it is so weak and cheap to borrow. "Dollar borrowing picked up steam after the G-20 summit {that ended in Pittsburgh on September 25} when traders concluded that interest rates in the U.S. were going to stay low for a long time," says Mark Matthews, chief Asia strategist for Fox-Pitt Kelton Securities. Adds Olivier Desbarres, a currency strategist for Asia with Credit Suisse: "Hedge funds, pension funds...
...dollar didn't always enjoy the dubious honor of being the global currency a trader could most cheaply borrow. For much of the last decade Japan has been the world's largest moribund economy, with an economy so weak the Bank of Japan never dared to lift interest rates significantly above zero. During this time the Japanese yen was the currency traders loved. No longer, it seems. "The yen has become the least obvious carrying currency," says Credit Suisse's Desbarres, mainly because the near-zero interest rates Japan once exclusively offered are now available from central banks across...
Despite the volatility in the stock market and a weak economy, investor confidence in the capital markets has stabilized, according to a new survey. However, investors are split over when they think the recession is ending...
...from other parts of the economy," says S&P's Wyss. "But our rate of growth is still probably going to slow because of the drop after the stimulus." And of course, there's that lingering anxiety over what happens if the stimulus ends and the economy is too weak to generate growth...
...Palestinians are weak; they are divided. And the Israelis are exploiting this situation," says Talal Okal, a political scientist at Gaza's Al-Azhar University. "I think the Israelis are waiting. They are provoking the Palestinians. They are waiting for rockets. They are trying to escape the American and European pressure on them to freeze the settlements. So this is a way to escape that pressure, at least for a while...