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FX Concepts' Taylor: Euro in a 'Death Struggle'

John Taylor, founder of currency hedge fund FX Concepts, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu and Dominic Chu this morning and said that the euro is in a "death struggle" as European policy makers seek to salvage the currency amid the region's crisis.

Taylor also said that the outlook for the euro surviving in its present form is "bleak."

 

Courtesy of Bloomberg Television

 

Taylor on the outlook for the euro:

"It is absolutely incredible. It's a death struggle for this currency. It is really worse than I could have dreamed it being. And unfortunately it has a bleak outlook ahead."

On whether there will be a breakup of the euro:

"Probably. Some parts of the euro will have to be out. There is no way Greece or Portugal can stand it."

On why the euro is not back down to $1.20 given its bleak outlook:

"What's stupid is that the ECB is holding it up. Why are they holding up the euro? One of the problems, besides the ECB, is the banks are shrinking, and the banks are selling all of their offshore assets and bringing them back to Europe. That means in fact there is a persistent buyer of euros and it's their own financial institutions."

On why the euro spiked in October and went back down in November:

"It is really hard. For me the outlook is bleak, but there is always the hope that the bleaker it gets the more the governments are going to wake up and do something. It gets to be this bipolar situation. The worse it is, then by God something will happen. That is what happened yesterday. We had articles coming out over the weekend saying that Europe had 10 days to live. The next thing you know, boom, the euro is way up. If it is that bad, [Angela] Merkel has to wake up and do something."

On the yen:

"The market does not know what the hell to do with Japan. Things are very quiet in Japan. The economy is not growing very much. We have gotten over the earthquake thing. Toyota made the comment yesterday they will have to move business offshore. It looks to me like the dollar yen is going to rally slightly. On the other hand, if Europe collapses, then money will move back into the yen because it is safer than Europe. Then people are scared of the United States because God knows what Bernanke is going to do. Of the four currencies, you've got Europe and England is very close. The U.S. has Bernanke to worry about. Japan is just sitting there. It's like a rock. It is not growing or shrinking, it is just there. It is safe in a way."

 

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