Currency Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. With every tick lower in the U.S. dollar, investors are wondering if the greenback has peaked. After a tremendous rally in...

The pound has started the new week how it ended the last one: weak. The latest slide has been in response to comments from UK Prime Minister Theresa May at the weekend, when she said Britain’s...

Market OverviewThe dollar bulls are back in the driving seat in the wake of Friday’s US labor market data which showed that wage growth was beginning to take hold. The data has helped to drag US...

Over the last week we saw positive data out of the UK, but unfortunately, due to comments made by PM Theresa May, we didn’t manage to see any strength from the pound. It seems that 2017 is...

The first trading week of 2017 is over. US stock indices have hit new record highs with Dow coming to within a point of hitting that 20K hurdle and crude prices turning back positive on the week after...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Friday’s U.S. jobs report was not only strong enough to prevent the dollar from sinking below 115 against the Japanese...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The U.S. dollar may have traded lower against all of the major currencies on Thursday and experienced its greatest one-day loss...

Today's HighlightsReversing the Trump Trade Bitcoin's $120 Day Lots of news today Please note: All data, figures & graphs below are valid as of January 5th. All trading carries risk. Only risk...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The U.S. dollar soared to fresh highs against all of the major currencies Tuesday before reversing sharply to end the day well...

Market OverviewAfter some minor trading anomalies over the thin volumes of the Christmas trading period, it will be interesting to see how markets react as trading desks begin to get back to normality...

GBP/USDTrend down Last year I wrote in my Annual Review referencing the monthly charts above: Now we have a new low at 1.4559. Nevertheless, this still looks like being tested as well as the 2010 low...

The EUR/USD closed its 2016 book below 1.0550 and in a slow start of 2017 it has formed a bearish ABCD pattern. The spike on Friday was caused by algos and I assume it cleared most stops above 1.0590....

The technical condition of the US dollar, which has been advancing through most of the Q4 '16, has been deteriorating, in our assessment. This led us to anticipate a consolidative or corrective phase....

First of all, I would like to wish you all a happy new year, and I hope you are all well rested after the break!2016 was an extremely eventful year for the currency markets, making the pound the most...