1.   Everybody who could rushed to buy dollars.

2.   Already, the government has decreed that tourists can buy dollars only at the implied Brady-bond exchange rate.

3.   Also, Indonesian companies seeking to buy dollars are selling rupiah for ringgits or Singapore dollars before converting them to U.S. dollars.

4.   Also, risk reversals in the options markets were now favoring options to sell rather than buy the dollar, Prendergast said.

5.   Also, Indonesian companies seeking to buy dollars are selling rupiah for ringgit or Singapore dollars before converting them to U.S. dollars.

6.   Analysts said the peso had weakened in part because companies with foreign debts were buying dollars to make quarterly interest payments and avoid foreign-exchange losses.

7.   An increase in oil revenues and dollar based debt have brought in more dollars in the economy, prompting the Bank to buy dollars.

8.   And because many mark-yen transactions are executed through the dollar, some traders were buying dollars for marks and then selling the dollars for yen.

9.   And rising bond prices support the dollar, since foreign investors must buy dollars to buy the bonds.