Currency Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.You’ve heard the old saying, 'sell in May and go away'. It’s a well-known investment strategy for stocks that...

General market themeApril was a strong month for the European currencies and a terrible one for the US dollar, the US currency remained under pressure the whole month as expectations for a tighter...

Market OverviewMarkets are still coming to terms with the central bank announcements of the last couple of days and the legacy of these decisions continues to impact through the markets with US dollar...

General market themePrice action in the major instruments we monitor continued on the same tune yesterday with the US dollar remaining in the backseat and the likes of euro and pound benefiting from...

This week’s key central bank meetings have come to pass. The US Federal Reserve, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of Japan all decided to leave their monetary policy stances...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It was a hard week/month for the U.S. dollar, which traded lower against nearly all of the major currencies. Investors...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It took no more than 3 minutes for USD/JPY to fall 300 pips with the sell-off spilling over to the yen crosses. The meltdown in...

Market OverviewCentral banks have been in focus overnight with the Fed, the BoJ and RBNZ all announcing monetary policy, but surprisingly none of them have changed policy. However, this has led to...

The focus for much of the week has been on the FOMC statement, which is understandable given the lack of any clear trend for the dollar and especially for the EUR/USD pair. As it has turned out, the...

General market themeSo the Fed meeting is now behind us and what we learned from the statement that the central bank released after it is pretty much what we already knew: the Fed is cautious about...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Regardless of how the dollar trades, Wednesday’s FOMC statement is positive -- not negative -- for the greenback because...

U.S. Fed’s FOMC Interest Rate decision comes out later today. Here’s my FX markets plus Bitcoin commentary at the CME today.Below you find the video Disclaimer: ADM Investor Services...