Currency Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset ManagementIt is not unusual to see big moves in currencies at the end of a month but Monday’s fluctuations give investors a taste of...

EUR/USDFriday's USD sell off after the US GDP figures sent the EUR pair back into the mid 1.1700's, but traders lacked the momentum to push higher, though we have seen this before, so will refrain...

Market OverviewSafe haven plays have been performing well after weaker US data, more political woes for Trump and this morning’s disappointment in Chinese PMIs. With sluggish US growth in the...

The week ahead will be jam-packed with key macro events affecting currency markets. Chief among these major events will be the US jobs report for July; a slew of PMI numbers from the US, UK, and...

Sterling exchange rates were pretty flat throughout the last week, leaving many sterling sellers and buyers frustrated - especially those buying or selling against the euro. The only real movement...

By Roman Butko, NordFXFirst, a review of last week’s forecast: EUR/USD The upward trend of the pair, which began on New Year's Eve 2017 and which marks a steady fall in the US dollar, was...

It is going to be an extremely busy week for the economic calendar next week as we head into a new a month. Key data from China, eurozone, UK and US will dominate the agenda, not to mention New...

EURUSDEveryone is watching this headline rate for USD direction, pitching the strength of the US economy against Europe where the recovery is gathering pace. Strong durable goods orders yesterday were...

The US dollar bounced back sharply on Thursday, a day after the US Federal Reserve issued yet another non-committal statement at the conclusion of its two-day FOMC meeting. That statement extended the...

The USD/CHF was the first major dollar pair to show strength this week and it has been the first to turn higher post FOMC. Most of the other major USD pairs have all given up their sharp gains after...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Volatility rocked the foreign-exchange market Thursday with the U.S. dollar hitting multi-year lows versus the euro and other...

Prior to the release of the July FOMC statement yesterday, the dollar had found some support and gold had weakened slightly. Market participants were wary of the possibility of a hawkish surprise, so...

This morning CAD/CHF opened in a bullish tendency and, after moving sideways during the early trading hours, started climbing.The Net Change on the currency pair has been positive since the beginning...

EUR/USDOnce again, the USD rout takes the EUR rate to new highs, this time making a clean break above 1.1700 to suggest the breakout is underlined and that 1.2000 is now just a matter of time. As has...