Currency Analysis & Opinion

After a strong start for the week the Dollar pulled back over the past 24 hours and gave up some of its gains against the rest of the majors. The US currency has been showing a fragile performance...

A year of stimulus, interest rate cuts and most recently devaluations to its currency is finally having the desired effect on inflation in China as CPI data came in at 1.5%, slightly higher than the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It doesn’t matter if you are trading equities, currencies, bonds or commodities – everyone’s focus right now...

Commodities have been today’s buzzword in the financial markets as oil dropped to the lowest level since the financial crisis and iron ore hit its lowest since 2005. Commodity currencies such as...

The Chinese economy has been struggling with issues that impact economic health for the past several months, with a slew of alterations to monetary policy that have thus far failed to incite the...

The US Dollar seems to have got its mojo back over the first trading session of the week on the back of the stronger Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday. As Asian and European traders came online and...

On Friday everybody’s attention has been on the release of the Non-Farm Payrolls employment report from the US and rightly so as this report might be one of the most significant piece of news of...

First, a review of last week’s forecast:- as for EUR/USD, the past week showed vividly that fundamental events can refute all forecasts of technical analysis. Thus, the ECB’s decision on...

Realistically, today’s Employment Situation report will be the final piece in the jigsaw that will fulfill expectations of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve on 16th December. Janet Yellen...

The price action yesterday in the wake of the ECB press conference illustrated the weight of expectations that had built up in the run up and the disappointment of the market in that the combination...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. After Thursday’s strong euro rally, the market’s greatest fear is that the Friday’s U.S. nonfarm payrolls...

Debutant Neal Kimberley, External Forex Analyst for Activtrades, joined Zak Mir and Bill Hubard, Chief Economist for Bullion Capital, on the Tip TV Finance Show to discuss the global economy,...

So, the ECB day finally arrives and as usual, the European stock and bond markets are finding good support, causing yields and the euro to fall. Clearly, the market is waiting for an early Christmas...

There is no doubt that ECB President Draghi has to deliver today at the ECB’s policy meeting. Back in October, he said that the bank were not in “wait and see” mode but “wait...