Currency Analysis & Opinion

Major currencies’ valuations should correlate to their yields, but lately they are diverging. Most G10 currencies are significantly above what yield differentially would suggest. Last...

The US dollar has continued its sell off in earnest this morning, with EURUSD boosted above 1.2250 as the market still cheers news from Friday of a breakthrough in coalition talks in Germany. German...

Market OverviewThe dollar remains under significant negative pressure this morning as a huge sell-off has driven major markets through key levels in the past couple of sessions. The move has taken the...

The latter half of the past week saw a resumption of pronounced bearish sentiment hit the US dollar once again, as concerns over persistently weak US inflation (reinforced by lagging producer price...

First, a review of last week’s forecastEUR/USD. Recall that the majority of experts (55%), supported by graphical analysis and oscillators on D1, voted for the pair's growth to 1.2200. This...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.We’re only a few days into the New Year and central banks made it clear that easy money will start to disappear in 2018. ...

The pound has rallied strongly following reports that the Spanish and Dutch finance ministers have agreed to push for a "soft" Brexit.The latest developments suggest that some of the 27 members of the...

We understand our politicians to be human, with much that that implies. In a democracy, politics is a competitive business, which means that generally well-balanced individuals tend to succeed, while...

Euro ebullient following German coalition progress, dollar in decline ahead of inflation dataThe euro was pretty damn ebullient this Friday following the news that Angela Merkel’s CDU were...

Is South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma about to be ousted?Markets think so, judging from the rapid appreciation of the ZAR, which is pricing in improved stability and decreased corruption. A...

Market OverviewWhether inflation begins to trend higher will be a key issue for traders this year, so any data that helps to build the picture of how inflation is moving will be pounced upon by...

Thursday morning’s release of the ECB monetary policy meeting accounts, or the minutes from the European Central Bank’s last meeting in December, prompted a surge for the euro on...

The New Zealand dollar has been among the strongest G10 currencies ever since the middle of November. It has been supported among other things by a sharp increase in dairy and meat prices, New...

Earlier today, I took part in a number of Core Finance TV broadcasts covering…Concerns Of The Crypto Trading Range: Bitcoin Could the yen/dollar go sub 110 soon? USDJPY, AUDUSD, USDZAR and a...