Currency Analysis & Opinion

It’s a tall order to expect Fed Chair Janet Yellen to be able to rescue markets from what has been a turbulent week. The best that can be hoped for is an acknowledgement that things have changed...

With the EUR/USD rallying to above 1.1300 level today, the USD/CHF is unsurprisingly dropping like a stone. The two currency pairs are inversely-correlated of course because the SNB has more or less...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Markets are falling and the yen is rising. Since the beginning of the month, the Japanese yen is up more than 5% against the...

Growing risk aversion amongst investors due to the extremely challenging global environment has served to push the yen drastically higher against peer currencies, even after an aggressive cut to...

Depression moving in from the eastMarkets remain by and large in a depressed state, following on from a sell off on Friday after the Non-event, Non-Farm Payrolls. Whilst it's not entirely clear what...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. We know that when Chinese markets are open they can wreck havoc on currencies and equities. But when they are closed, the same...

The dollar reaction to US payrolls on Friday was relatively muted, given the shake-out seen in the middle of last week of dollar longs, but most managed to put the positive above the negatives, which...

First, a review of last week’s forecast: - Initially everything was going according to plan for EUR/USD – it rebounded to resistance at 1.0990 but then, instead of reversing and going...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It's been a brutal week to be long U.S. dollars but Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report gave investors a glimmer of hope...

It’s been another difficult week for European markets after a positive finish to January, with the beginning of February seeing the old concerns of a slowing global economy, deflationary...

The day after some huge moves in the forex markets I recorded my latest interview with TipTV. We discussed the general markets along with technicals on EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY. With plenty to...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Will Friday's Nonfarm Payrolls report save the dollar? Probably not. Over the past 24 hours investors have been selling U.S....

So weak has the dollar been this week that even the GBP/USD has managed to regain its poise. Clearly, traders are no longer expecting the US Federal Reserve to embark on an aggressive tightening cycle...