Currency Analysis & Opinion

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...

The U.S. dollar soared against all of the major currencies after President Joe Biden officially renominated Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman. Dr. Lael Brainard, the only other realistic...

Please find below the link to today’s Daily Technical Analysis of FX covering Spot EURUSD, GBPUSD, EURGBP, USDINR, USDBRL & USDMXN.  

Investors bought U.S. dollars after retail sales rose for the third month in a row. The increase in demand was widely anticipated, but the increase in overall spending along with spending...

Currency investors, made increasingly optimistic by yesterday's direct talks between US President Joseph Biden and China's President Xi Jinping, pushed the USD/CNY toward its highest levels since...

Consumer spending expanded by a mere 1.6% for the last quarter, a severe fall-off from the 12% growth in the second quarter. Since consumer spending makes up 69% of the $23.2 trillion US economy, this...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com.There is little doubt which currency has been the king of foreign exchange market this week. The US dollar got a big boost after that...

Risk appetite soured today as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower for the first time in nine trading days. The simultaneous decline in currencies and Treasury yields confirms our view that...

OverviewAs regular readers know, the primary “transmission mechanism” between economic data like the Nonfarm Payrolls report and market movements is through central bank policy. In other...

The Federal Reserve has made it official. Starting later this month, it will reduce its monthly bond purchases by $15 billion ($10 billion Treasuries, $5 billion mortgage-backed securities). By...

For the first time since the pandemic began, the Federal Reserve will reduce the stimulus it has been providing. Given the significance of this move and what it means for the central bank’s...