Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar may drop (упасть в цене) for an eighth week and set a record low against the euro after the world's major central banks signaled they will allow the currency to extend (продолжить) its slide (падение), a Bloomberg survey indicates.

Sixty-eight percent of the 59 strategists, investors and traders polled on Nov. 26 from Tokyo to New York advised selling the dollar against the euro. Participants also predicted the U.S. currency will weaken against the yen, British pound, Swiss franc and Australian dollar.

The dollar has lost as much as (около) 3 cents against the euro since Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Nov. 19 that foreigners will tire of financing the record U.S. current account (платежный баланс) deficit. He was joined on Nov. 25 by Bank of England Chief Economist Charles Bean, who said in a speech in Colchester, England, that international investors are unlikely to keep buying American assets indefinitely, triggering (вызывая) a possibly substantial'' drop in the dollar.

The dollar fell 2.1 percent last week to $1.3293 per euro late (вечером) on Nov. 26 in New York after earlier sliding to a record $1.3330, according to (по данным) electronic foreign-exchange trading system EBS. It shed 0.5 percent to 102.57 yen, the ninth consecutive weekly decline (9-ое недельное падение подряд).

Relative Strength

The dollar is unlikely to end this week lower than $1.33 per euro, said O'Neill. Goldman predicts the dollar will weaken to $1.40 versus the euro in 12 months and 95 yen.

The dollar's drop may also stall (приостановиться) after a technical indicator some traders use to gauge (следить за) trends suggested the currency has fallen too far. The euro's 14-day relative strength index, which shows how rapidly prices have risen or fallen in a given period, closed at 81.1 on Nov. 26. The yen's RSI was 25.4. Levels above 70 and below 30 signal a currency may change direction.

My bias (направление) would still be to sell dollars'' in advance of the Labor Department's monthly report on U.S. employment, which is scheduled for release on Dec. 3, said Steve Barrow, a currency strategist at Bear Stearns Cos. in London.

The longer we've gone on in this downtrend, the less the market feels that strong data is relevant,'' he said. Investors could be more sensitive to weak data than strong data.''

American employers probably added 200,000 new workers in November, down from 337,000 in October, according to the median (средний) forecast of economists polled by Bloomberg News.

Following are the results of Bloomberg's currency survey:

                             BUY      SELL    HOLD

Euro                       40        10       9
Yen                        41         5        13
British pound           37         9        12
Swiss franc             42         7        7
Australian dollar      40         10      8

Euro versus yen       BUY      SELL   HOLD

                              18        21      15