21.   The dollar will be underpinned by dollar purchases by Japanese importers and by lingering expectations for lower German interest rates, traders said.

22.   The frenzy of dollar purchases ended quickly when stock and bond prices retreated.

23.   The impact of central bank dollar purchases will be offset by weak U.S. economic reports, he said.

24.   The value of the dollar against the mark is closely watched, so the change may have automatically prompted dollar purchases elsewhere.

25.   The threat of dollar purchases by the Fed and Bank of Japan is supporting the U.S. currency against the yen, traders said.

26.   There was talk in the market that the dollar was boosted against the yen by dollar purchases from Caltex Petroleum, Spence said.

27.   To be sure, expectations for dollar purchases by the Bank of Japan lingered.

28.   U.S., Japanese, German, and Swiss central banks coordinated dollar purchases on that occasion.

29.   What Nakajima and many other traders speculate is that the Bank of Japan will coordinate dollar purchases with other central banks to bolster the U.S. currency.

30.   When the ministry unveiled the measures in August, it coordinated dollar purchases with the U.S. Federal Reserve.