Currency Analysis & Opinion

Market OverviewWith the dollar holding up, are markets starting to take a less fearful view of the geopolitical concerns about North Korea’s missile testing? Yet another ballistic missile was...

The Bank of England and Swiss National Bank issued monetary policy decisions on Thursday, and both central banks left their respective interest rates unchanged. However, their policy stances diverged...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Thanks to the Bank of England, U.S. data and North Korea, it was an extremely lively day in the foreign-exchange market. The big...

Currency markets appear to have been caught a little short of sterling after the Bank of England struck an unexpectedly hawkish tone on the potential for a possible move in interest rates. The pound...

The Bank of England threw its name into the hat of central banks that could still raise interest rates this year when released the minutes from its monetary policy meeting today.While traders were...

The Bank of England may have left rates on hold and the vote split may have stayed at 7-2, however, the tone of the statement was definitely more hawkish, and the prospect of a November rate hike is...

Daily analysisToday, the main event will be the Bank of England policy decision. As always, besides the rate decision, we will also get the minutes of the meeting. The consensus is for the Bank to...

Going into the MPC announcement later on the this morning, no one is expecting any change in policy, nor should they - now or indeed any time soon. We would expect this view to be shared by the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The mighty dollar’s persistent strength was Wednesday's biggest story of the day. The greenback’s broad-based gains...

Key data from Australia and China will be released in the early hours of Thursday, followed by inflation figures from the US later on in Thursday’s session. Thursday’s data releases could...

Daily analysis | 13 September 2017The Kiwi dollar spiked higher yesterday, following the release of an opinion poll regarding New Zealand’s upcoming general election on the 23rd of September....

After a fantastic run of form sterling stumbled over a wages-shaped obstacle this Wednesday. While the unemployment rate unexpectedly dipped to a fresh 42 year low of 4.3%, and the claimant count...

The latest employment data for the UK had some positive and negative surprises for traders. On the plus side the UK economy continues to create jobs hand over fist. 181k jobs were created in the three...

The latest wage data has unexpectedly failed to show an increase in average earnings with the index coming in in-line with last month’s reading of 2.1%. Even if the reading had risen to the...