Simon Derrick Quotations

From what I am reading and seeing I think country risks have been sacrificed in the search for yields.

Sterling has been remarkably robust in an environment where it could easily have lost ground, that encourages me that there has been some real underlying support and demand for the currency.

There has been a re-evaluation of people's expectations as to where the U.S. rates can ultimately end up. I think we will continue to see dollar weakness.

U.S. economic growth is looking very robust and we shouldn't be assuming the Fed is close to the peak in interest rates yet. The dollar can push higher.

Even a hint that the Bank of Japan may be getting near to ending its quantitative easing, and raising rates, is going to lead to large moves in the yen. People have been so positioned for it to go down.

If you assume that the markets are effectively pricing in 2.75 percent rates by the end of the third quarter and have been doing that really since the end of last year, there is nothing that they are hearing from ECB members is really altering that perception.

The Fed has been explicit that any more moves will be driven by data. I would be surprised if the data wasn't healthy, and the dollar could firm on the back of stronger numbers.

The key thing that's going on is about interest rates. It's still an interest-rate trade.

The big support that Fed rate increases had been giving the dollar is starting to wane and the minutes made that clear.

It's still likely that interest rates will continue to go up in the U.S., so that favors the dollar over the medium term.

A batch of downbeat US economic data underpinned some market doubt over the Fed's inclination towards higher interest rates.

The market will therefore be eyeing today's ISM report and Friday's University of Michigan survey with this in mind.

The measured pace of rate increases is still on track. People are jumping on this as another reason to buy the dollar.