Currency Analysis & Opinion

There are only three more Federal Reserve monetary policy announcements before the end of the year. If Fed Chairman Jerome Powell wants to give the market ample time to prepare for tapering asset...

This is one of the busiest trading weeks of the year, and for this very reason, volatility in the stock market as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index rose to its highest level in four...

After staying cooped up inside for most of the past 18 months, Canadian citizens finally have an excuse to venture outside their homes: The country holds a snap election next week, and based on the...

Inflation is cooling in the U.S. and the evidence sent the greenback tumbling against all of the major currencies. Consumer prices grew 0.3% in the month of August, down from 0.5% in...

September is a busy month. For investors, asset price movements will be determined by central bank rate decisions, employment reports and elections.  There are no monetary policy announcements...

Welcome to a new trading week. Traders will likely be eyeing key inflation data from the U.S., U.K. and eurozone this week to shape expectations for monetary policy tightening. The U.S. dollar in the...

The European Central Bank has a monetary policy announcement on Thursday, and many investors are wondering if the euro will fall to the same fate as the Canadian and Australian dollars. Both...

Central bank meetings are creating more pain than gain for currencies this week. The Australian dollar shot higher immediately after the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy announcement but U-turned...

U.S. Nonfarm payrolls disappointed last Friday with only 235,000 jobs created in August.The US Dollar sold off in an imminent response to the report but the greenback’s decline was limited after...

OverviewIn the wake of last week’s cautious economic assessment from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, most market watchers aren’t expecting the US central bank to announce its taper plans until...

Of all the high frequency US economic releases dollar traders follow, the monthly Nonfarm Payrolls report is perhaps the most watched as well as the most influential for markets. Friday's August...

As readers may already know, Germans head to the polls on Sunday September 26 to elect a new Bundestag, or federal parliament. In all likelihood, two or three parties will have to form a coalition...

The U.S. dollar sold off against most of the major currencies after ADP’s employment report raised red flags for non-farm payrolls. U.S. yields turned lower once the report was released and the...

The U.S. dollar snapped higher on Tuesday when Treasury yields surged right before the London close. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact catalyst, as today’s U.S. economic reports were mostly...