21.   That also helped lift the dollar against the yen, traders said.

22.   That encouraged investors to buy U.S. Treasury bonds and stocks, and in turn lifted the dollar, as overseas investors need the currency to buy U.S. securities.

23.   Such a move would in theory help lift the dollar by making deposits demominated in the currency more attractive to foreign investors.

24.   That has lifted the dollar versus the mark, as U.S. growth continues to outpace that in Germany.

25.   That helped lift the dollar against the yen and push it down against the mark, as some of those transactions are executed via the dollar.

26.   That helped lift the dollar from the post-World War II lows it fell to against the mark and the yen early last year.

27.   That view had helped lift the dollar to four-month highs versus the mark and other European currencies in recent weeks.

28.   That view helped lift the dollar, though not all traders were so sanguine about the chances of lower German rates.

29.   That view had helped lift the dollar to four month highs versus the mark and other European currencies in recent weeks.

30.   The concern lifted the dollar to near the five-year-and-a-half-year high earlier today.