Currency Analysis & Opinion

The pound has been typically volatile over the past several days, especially against the US dollar. The GBP/USD has alternated between a red and a green day for the past eight sessions. Against the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Buying USD/JPY after the Bank of Japan cut interest rates to negative levels is one of our favorite trades. We are not alone...

Despite the mixed closing of the US major stocks indexes, Shanghai composite could make remarkable progress in the beginning of today session, after news about PBOC injection of 50b Yuan for 14 day...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Currency traders are bracing for a busy week in the financial markets. There are 2 monetary policy announcements, 4...

First, about last week’s predictions: - EUR/USD once again proved that the majority opinion may be wrong. The pair’s bullish sentiment was supported by only 25% of the experts and...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Thanks to the Bank of Japan, we’ve had a very exciting end to the first trading month of the year. 2016 started and ended...

As expected, the Fed has kept the target for the its funds rate unchanged at 0.25% to 0.5% showing its worries about the economic outlook because of global economic slowdown and the financial...

So the Fed painted itself into a corner and while its hands are tied, it was interesting news last week to see the ECB and BOJ turning dovish again with further easing hinted in the near future....

The FX markets are fairly quiet this morning as traders await direction from the US Federal Reserve and later on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Neither central bank is expected to make any changes,...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The sharp sell-off in Chinese stocks overnight and the intraday swings in oil kept investors on their toes throughout the North...

Sterling has been among the biggest losers in the past twelve months. The current prospects for the British currency in the short-term do not seem any better, too, but it may not be as doom and gloom...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.This is an important week for the U.S. dollar, but how the greenback performs will be determined by whether the Federal Reserve...

First, a review of last week’s forecast:- the experts’ opinion about EUR/USD’s bearish sentiment proved right – the pair fell by 120 points during the week. However, this is...

The implication from Thursday’s comments from Draghi is that the single currency is once again entering a six week period of uncertainty and guessing as to what the ECB will do come the March...