Currency Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Next week is Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s semiannual testimony before Congress and the U.S. dollar’s performance tells...

Market OverviewAs yields on global bonds rise, equity markets are becoming increasingly under pressure. Top patterns and uptrends are being broken on European major markets whilst Wall Street is...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Friday’s U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls report is the most important event risk this week and investors are trading USD/JPY like a...

Unless you have been living underground for the last 12 months, then you may be aware that on the 23rd June 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum to leave the European Union.After months of...

FOMC clings to economic argument.Looking back over H1 ‘17, Janet Yellen the Fed Chair has hardly mentioned a Dow Jones Index that has risen by a third in eighteen months. Yet inflation which has...

Thanks to the Bank of Canada turning hawkish, the Canadian dollar has been on a tear in recent weeks. But today it took a hammering as crude oil prices plunged. The Loonie fell against all the major...

The dollar continues to recover in the currency market on the eve of today's publication: minutes from the last meeting of the Fed (18:00 GMT) and on Friday (12:30 GMT) - data from the US labour...

After weaker manufacturing and construction PMI readings earlier this week, all eyes were on the dominant services sector PMI this morning. The PMI was expected to print 53.6 compared to 53.8 in May....

Market OverviewAs US traders return from Independence Day public holiday, attention will now turn to some key tier one economic data in the coming days that will drive the market sentiment. Today we...

Stick or twist? UK outlook unclear by every measureThere is no right answer but, then again, there is no wrong answer either. Politics, monetary policy, economics; each has a unique set of drivers...

The Reserve Bank of Australia is unlikely to change interest rates from the current historic low rate of 1.5 per cent. But it may become the latest central bank to turn hawkish following three months...

Earlier today, I took part in FX Street’s ‘Currency in Play’ show covering EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY amongst others with some general FX Market banter thrown in.To watch the market...

In June the major European equity indices ended lower, while in the US the markets were mixed as the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 bucked the trend of an otherwise bullish month. European equities were...

What: GBP/USD has fallen below 1.30 on the back of weak manufacturing PMI data released this morning. The market was disappointed with the 54.3 reading for June, which was the lowest level for three...