Currency Analysis & Opinion

Not a comfortable end to the week for many markets as ongoing concerns regarding China and emerging markets in general weigh on sentiment. This was pretty evident in stock markets yesterday, down 2%...

Deepening emerging market fallout from another slump in Chinese share prices and the de-pegging of Kazakhstan’s tenge has prompted a lower open for UK and European stocks on Thursday.The...

Volatility was significantly higher yesterday as traders were keen to find out more about the domestic US economy and at the same time Fed policymakers’ thoughts on the progress being made. As...

The release of FOMC minutes to the end of July meeting brought more uncertainty with regards to the timing of the next increase in rates. This can be seen in the reaction of the Dollar, down 0.4% on...

Traders were focused on the British Pound over the past 24 hours as the release of the Consumer Price Index report was the most high-profile event of the day and investors were looking to receive...

Wilson Leung, Director, Trendsetter FX, joined Tip TV to offer the technical outlook for USD/JPY and GBP/USD.USD/JPY – Will the dollar bulls return?Leung believes that the US FOMC Minutes to...

Some people have been looking for the Fed to hike interest rates to help reignite the dollar rally. Bad news, some fairly basic analysis suggests that the dollar is not that closely related to the...

New traders often ask me which currency pairs they should they start with -- and my suggestion has always been to consider cable, simply because broker spreads are reasonable and the pair almost...

Cable finds itself around 20 pips higher at the European open on the back of comments from another member of the Bank of England’s MPC outlining the risks of leaving an interest rate rise too...

The previous week:- most analysts predicted that EUR/USD would drop, and only 19% of them mentioned a continuing upward trend. Experience has shown that the majority opinion isn’t always right...

The last session of the week passed without major incidents or any important updates last Friday and the major currency pairs remained more or less around the same levels that we left them at. Price...

Cable traders will be well aware of the resistance at the 1.5671 mark that has proved tough to break and once again we find ourselves testing it. Will it finally give way this time? For the last month...