Currency Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The U.S. dollar is on fire, rising to its strongest level in more than 13 years. In the past month alone, the Dollar Index is up...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The U.S. dollar traded sharply higher against all of the major currencies Wednesday on the back of the Federal Reserve’s...

The two-day FOMC meeting will conclude on Wednesday at 19:00 GMT and Janet Yellen’s press conference will begin shortly afterwards at 19:30. It could be a long wait until then. Expect to see...

The stronger UK November inflation figures helped to keep the pound bid yesterday against most currencies. At the time of this writing, the GBP/USD was trading at 1.2715 – near yesterday’s...

UK CPI was driven to its highest level since October 2014 last month by rising clothing and fuel prices. Recreational and cultural goods and services, potentially driven by rising tourism rates, also...

It’s not been an easy year for the pound given the fallout from the June “Brexit” vote and there was certainly a concern 12 months ago that the uncertainty surrounding that vote was...

The last week on the markets was pretty eventful, as we saw the GBP/EUR exchange rate hit a very short-lived high of 1.20 following the result of the Italian referendum on constitutional reform. By...

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced an extension in the bond purchase programme until December 2017. From April 2017 to December 2017, the monthly purchase amount will be cut from EUR 80bn to...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The European Central Bank wants the euro to fall and that's exactly what the euro did after the monetary-policy announcement....

The pound has fallen sharply over the past couple of days. It has been among (if not) the worst performer in G10 currencies. As well as uncertainty over how and when the Brexit process will start, the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The euro is trading higher ahead of this year’s final European Central Bank monetary policy meeting and the big question...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. After the Italian referendum, the forex market turned its focus to 3 monetary-policy announcements. The Reserve Bank of...

The AUD/NZD could be about to turn decisively higher. Monday night’s RBA policy statement was as neutral as it could get. More to the point, there were no hints of further interest rate cuts. In...

The dollar has pulled back in recent days after its US election-inspired rally faded as investors made a more sober assessment of the whole political and economic situation there, realising that the...