Currency Analysis & Opinion

Global PMI at 11-month high in OctoberGlobal economic growth kicked higher at the start of the fourth quarter, according to PMI survey data. The JPMorgan Global PMI, compiled by IHS Markit, rose from...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It’s a new trading week and the U.S. dollar has hit fresh multi-month highs against the euro, Japanese yen, Swiss franc...

Although the targets have been hit after our previous GBP/JPY analysis, bullish sentiment still prevails as the dragon relentlessly flying towards 136.00 and further. Today's early trading gave us...

Good morning all,It’s been a weekend that would have left many traders licking their wounds after last week’s market moves on the back of Donald Trump’s Presidential election win....

Market OverviewThe move higher on the dollar has continued today as the markets continue to price for higher US growth and inflation of a Trump presidency. The strong dollar has been exacerbated by...

It has been yet another volatile week on the market. Over the past few months the markets seemed to have priced in a Clinton win for the Presidential elections in the US, which was completely...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Given how quickly and aggressively the U.S. dollar soared since Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. Presidential election,...

Market OverviewA slight air of caution is beginning to take hold now, with markets still trying to figure out the impact of a Trump presidency, and there are signs that volatility is beginning to...

Following Trump's historic Presidency election win, there was a sudden move for risk-off due to the uncertainties of his polices with safe-haven currencies like Yen, appreciating strongly....

Market OverviewThe remarkable victory for Donald Trump in the US Presidential election resulted in an incredibly wild ride on financial markets that saw sharp swings first one way then the other....

With many analysts making lots of comparisons between the outcome of US elections and Brexit, it is only right that we took a look at the cable today. Before that, let’s just remind ourselves...

Trump's victory reflected on the EUR/USD pair during both the election and after the London open. The pair spiked exactly as predicted in the latest EUR/USD analysis. As expected, the USD plummeted at...

Market OverviewThe world is waking up to a new US President today and it is not the one that markets had positioned for. As I write this, Donald Trump has just sealed a spectacular victory that will...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It’s Election Day here in the U.S. and in a few hours we’ll know who becomes the 45th President of the United...