Currency Analysis & Opinion

The rally in currencies and equities continued Thursday, with the U.S. dollar extending lower. All of the major economic events this year are now behind us, clearing the way for a Santa Claus...

The Federal Reserve took a big step in its battle with inflation today when it announced plans to taper asset purchases by $60 billion a month. In November, it was cutting purchases by $15...

Currencies and equities have been consolidating ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve monetary policy announcement. It is the most critical event risk of the week and the most likely catalyst for...

Buckle your seatbelts and brace for some big moves in the markets this week. Everything from equities, currencies to Treasuries and crypto have been itching for breakouts. With five major central...

Welcome to the last fully-liquid and event-laden trading week of the year 2021. Before the liquidity drain towards the end of the year, this week is overloaded with major event risk such as the FOMC...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.comThe Dollar Index has been consolidating its recent gains around the mid-point of the 2020-2021 drop over the past few weeks or so. Today, there is...

There is a very clear quadruple top pattern in USD/CAD from 1.2850. Investors have been snapping up Canadian dollars ahead of Wednesday’s monetary policy announcement. The Bank of...

The US dollar rallied on Monday against some but not all of the major currencies.  Our readers should not find the rally in USD/JPY or decline in EUR/USD surprising because we talked about...

Job growth in the U.S. slowed significantly last month, with non-farm payrolls rising by only 210,000 in November, down from 546,000 in October. This was less than half of the 550,000 consensus...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.comThe FX markets have been fairly quiet given how volatile the equity markets have been. As another week draws to a close there is still a lot of...

Health experts around the world are worried about Omicron, but investors are not – at least that’s what the 2% rally in stocks and rebound in the U.S. dollar suggests.  Everyone...

Currencies and equities sold off sharply today after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said: “It is time to retire the word transitory regarding inflation.” Investors bid up the...

As its name implies, the US Thanksgiving holiday is all about expressing gratitude for the good things in life, and despite (or perhaps because of) 30-year highs in inflation readings, US dollar bulls...

Turkey's lira is down over 10% after President Tayyip Erdogan defended recent sharp rate cuts, and vowed to win his "economic war of independence" despite widespread criticism and pleas to reverse...