61.   DOLLAR STEADY DESPITE INTERVENTION The dollar was steady despite an apparently coordinated effort by the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England to buy dollars.

62.   Domestic investors are liquidating their share positions to buy dollars amid speculation that the central bank will allow the Venezuelan currency, the bolivar, to fall further.

63.   Demand for U.S. stocks and bonds can help the U.S. currency because foreign investors must buy dollars to purchase the securities.

64.   Den norske traders have felt confident enough to buy dollars for marks today, Bjornstad said.

65.   During Tokyo trading, the dollar extended recent gains as traders worried the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan will team up to buy dollars.

66.   Eight months ago, the bank was buying dollars to keep the peso from rising too high against the U.S. currency.

67.   European money managers may also have had trouble selling other currencies and buying dollars within seconds so as to avoid losses.

68.   Even so, traders will keep an eye on whether the Bank of Japan and U.S. Federal Reserve may buy dollars again, Morikuni said.

69.   Even so, currency traders said even some buying by Japanese lends support to the dollar because they buy dollars to purchase the U.S. securities.

70.   Even so, traders were unwilling to aggressively buy dollars amid concern the Democrats may win control of Congress from the Republicans in election today, traders said.