Currency Analysis & Opinion

In a historic moment today, Theresa May has delivered the UK exit letter to her European Union colleagues, officially starting the Brexit process today. With so much uncertainty hanging over the UK...

Market OverviewJust over nine months after the momentous EU referendum, the UK is set to trigger Article 50 today. This means that around 1230BST the UK will have officially served the EU the letter...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Will Wednesday’s Brexit Article 50 trigger be much ado about nothing for the British pound? Judging from sterling's recent...

Yesterday saw the US dollar manage to bounce back a little shortly after the New York open, while US stock indices filled their weekend gaps as they recovered from heavy losses. Perceived safe-haven...

Market OverviewIn most trending moves there will be minor bumps in the road. The dollar looks to be trending lower now but a minor rally into the close last night has just posed a few questions. Are...

EUR/USDEUR/USD moves upward after the breakout of the resistance level 1.0800, yesterday's opening gap-up and the following violation of the resistance level at 1.0870, which stopped the intermediate...

After big overnight falls, theUS dollar managed to bounce back a little shortly after the New York open, the Dow was well over 100 points off its earlier lows and the VIX had declined more than 10%...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The U.S. dollar fell to a 4-month low against the Japanese yen Monday, extending a decline that has taken the greenback lower...

EUR/USDEUR/USD managed to contain a bullish signal last week, moving inside short-term consolidation. Price reached the resistance level at 1.0800 and moved sideways untill Friday. There were many...

Trumpcare a non-starterThe inability of President Trump and the Speaker of the Senate, Paul Ryan to push through the bill for the boll-back of Obamacare has had two significant effects. First, this is...

It seems like a very long time ago that the UK public came out and voted to leave the EU. After all of the issues in the Houses of Commons and in the Supreme Court, finally on Wednesday we will see...

The EUR/USD looks set to close higher for the fourth consecutive week. That sounds impressive. But to put things into perspective, it has been trading inside a narrow range between 1.05 and 1.08 for...

The euro finds itself higher across the board. The EUR/USD has risen above the 1.0800 handle again, the EUR/GBP to 0.8650 and the EUR/JPY was back at 120.00 at the time of writing. The strong...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It was a tough week for the U.S. dollar. A number of Federal Reserve officials were scheduled to speak but none of them said...