Currency Analysis & Opinion

EM currencies remain under pressure despite heavy devaluation in the past month. Investors have focused on foreign debt holdings to pick winners and losers.Foreign debt in EMs has rising significantly...

If markets were relaxed about Brexit over the summertime, they are less so now. The vacation had left analysts puzzled by comparatively low sterling volatility, given the dearth of Brexit progress in...

First, a review of last week’s events: EUR/USD. As for the trends and their changes, the forecast given last week turned out to be absolutely accurate: starting from Tuesday, September 6, we saw...

It's time to place your bets on the outcome of Brexit. From our view markets are playing it overly safe. Investors are pricing in an 80% probability to see a Brexit deal, with a 60% chance of a market...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The trade war is back and investors don’t like it. The U.S. dollar traded higher against all of the major currencies...

The dollar has caught a bid after the release of yet another strong jobs report for the US, which included some good news on wages as well as employment. Earnings growth has long eluded the US...

It’s payroll Friday. The weakness due to a session of unique corporate events from July has reversed, setting the stage for a solid non-farm payroll employment increase of 220k in August. ADP...

Market OverviewMarkets have entered into a brief period of calm, or could it be that traders are just in limbo as the world awaits the next move from Donald Trump over the trade dispute with China. A...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.This Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report is very important with a Federal Reserve rate hike expected later this month. The...

Yesterday, at 9AM EDT the pound sterling jumped over 1 full percent within 60 minutes, its biggest one-hour advance of the year. The surge was propelled by reports that Germany is prepared to...

Thursday September 6: Five things the markets are talking aboutGlobal equities again are on the back foot, with a number of regional bourses trading atop of their lowest close of the year, as...

EURUSDA Failure Yesterday To The Previous Session’s Key Reversal Down Constructed With A Bullish Engulfing Pattern…Some Small Follow On Higher Today Though We’ve Pulled Back At Time...

Market OverviewAs a deadline looms for the assessment of potential tariffs on another $200bn of imports from China, the continued sell-off on emerging market assets is impacting negatively on...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Except for two very brief periods of volatility, it was an extremely quiet day in the forex market. The greenback reversed from...