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To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (271371)	12/18/2003 5:29:24 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Respond to of 436258

crusader, The dollar trading tells me US dollars are leaving for commodities or assets in other currencies. IMO, most of the US dollar trading is real currency transactions. The market is to big for traders to control the type of movements we have seen since 2000. Obviously the stocks that control the indexes are being bought. IMO, this is plain old fashion Wall Street money, with some help from Greenspan. I do not know if the index futures are leading or buying the index sensitive stocks are leading. Something(s) are being sold, and could be plain old fashion US dollar from payments for foreign goods!!!! I did read that some Chinese corporations are converting the US dollars they receive for goods sold to invest in foreign companies that provide the commodities they need and/or to buy commodities inventories for manufacturing. Looks like the manufactures of cotton goods should have bought a ton of inventory. <g>