Currency Analysis & Opinion

Thanks to increased uncertainty about the US elections and a drop in the dollar, buck-denominated gold has been surging higher in recent days to reach north of $1300 today. The stock market sell-off...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. With 7 days to go before one of the most dramatic U.S. presidential elections in history, politics is clearly overshadowing...

Market OverviewMarkets are looking cautiously optimistic again this morning after better than expected China Manufacturing PMIs although being right in the in the midst of a raft of central bank...

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) allowed the Chinese currency to increase in value on Monday. This is worth noting, since the CNY had fallen to its lowest level in 6 years, and by nearly 2%...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. We’ve had a relatively quiet start to a very busy week in the foreign-exchange market but that will soon change with the...

The AUD/NZD has been moving in a steady uptrend and we can see 2 distinct trend lines that form the bullish trend. Trend lines are the part of 2 POC zones that might spike the price to the upside so...

Market OverviewMarket sentiment has taken a hit after the FBI announced further investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst in government. The potential for this to...

Obviously there will be a lot happening next week from a fundamental perspective and we are expecting to see increased volatility in the financial markets across the board. But the focus of this short...

The US dollar has turned higher after a weaker start and following two down days, as measured by the Dollar Index. The dollar rebound has been supported by a strong rise in US Treasury yields, with...

Market OverviewMarkets have become very choppy in recent days, but there are still some key moves being seen. Bond yields continue to rise as bonds are being sold off. The latest catalyst was the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The big story in the foreign-exchange market Thursday was USD/JPY and its break above 105. For the past 5 trading days, USD/JPY...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Over the past 24 hours, many of our clients have asked if the U.S. dollar has peaked and is now prime for a major reversal....

GBP basket has been moving a lot since Brexit vote and mostly it has been sold into rallies as I suggested. Our latest Session Recap GBP/USD trade analysis and setup has provided us with more than 120...