Currency Analysis & Opinion

After a quiet Monday, things were already looking livelier this morning and volatility could rise further once US market participants come back from their long weekend break.Overnight, risk sentiment...

A very strong UK jobs report gave a Brexit-bored pound a boost on Tuesday, transforming the FTSE’s session in the process.Wage growth, including bonuses, hit 3.4% between September and November;...

Tuesday January 22: Five things the markets are talking aboutAppetite for risk in this holiday shorted week starts on the low side with Euro and Asia equities under pressure in their respective...

EUR/USD turned negative on Tuesday following timid recovery attempts at the start of the trading week. The euro is pressured by a sell-off in risky assets amid the signs of rising tensions between the...

There’s been some pleasing news on the labour market front from the UK this morning, with wage growth moving up to its highest level since the 2008 crisis while the unemployment rate...

Sterling still coolest cat in town Striking the same lightly negative, wholly uninterested tone as on Monday, the European markets shrugged their way through Tuesday’s open. The FTSE continued...

Even with the Chinese data dump that greeted the European markets at Monday’s open, the session turned out to be a bit of a snooze, lacking an injection of energy from the US thanks to Martin...

A Brexit delay looks likely, but this does not necessarily give a resolution. If the new European Parliament votes in May 2019 not to give further concessions to the UK, including on the Irish...

NZD/USD has been depreciating for a sixth day in a row - the longest losing streak in over three months. The currency pair is trading barely above the 0.67 figure on Monday and it looks as if the...

Market OverviewIt is interesting to see the risk appetite still improving, but this also coming as a dollar rally is finding its legs. Treasury yields appear to be generating upside traction again as...

Click the video to watch the analysis on the week ahead where we look at GBP/USD and its response to May's Brexit Plan B.Worth looking at UK data like Wage Growth, however the biggest factor for cable...

First, a review of last week’s events:EUR/USD. One of the scenarios suggested that the pair would return to the limits of the medium-term lateral channel 1.1300-1.1500, and its central line was...

Daily FX Market Roundup Jan 18, 2019By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management The U.S. dollar traded higher against all of the major currencies Friday with the exception...

The past week has been arguably the most tumultuous for UK politics since the EU referendum in 2016, with the Brexit saga continuing to wrangle on with seemingly little progress being made. As was...