Currency Analysis & Opinion

The U.S. dollar struggled to rally Thursday despite very strong U.S. economic reports. According to the latest releases, the U.S. economy roared back to life in March and early April. Retail...

What is moving the markets these days? What are the main drivers of currency pairs? First, the vaccination pace. The second, the recovery speed. And finally, investors are concerned about how...

Price action recap USD had been on a powerful bull run from the get go of 2021, after the beating encountered last year. At the closure of March the greenback posted its biggest quarterly gain...

The biggest news on Tuesday turned out to be concerns about the Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) vaccine and not the U.S. inflation report. The country’s two health agencies (FDA and CDC)...

The euro kicked off this busy trading week with modest gains against the US dollar. Despite continued lockdowns in some of the region’s biggest economies, slow vaccine rollout and lower...

As it revelaed in its semi-annual financial stability review last week, The Reserve Bank of Australia is anxious about growing risks to the country’s economy. The central bank maintains that...

The Australian Dollar in 2020 was one of the best-performing currencies, following a strong run to the upside from March to December. The pair rallied as much as 1885 pips, after hitting the lowest...

Welcome to a new trading week.   Euro bulls took a breather on Friday after the shared currency had the best week against the U.S. dollar so far this year. While the U.S. and Asia are already on...

USD Bull Run The greenback remains well within the control of the market bulls, seeing another solid performance for the month. March saw the USD posting its biggest monthly advance since July 2019,...

Welcome back at the desks after a long weekend.Nonfarm payrolls data released on Good Friday smashed all market expectations and came in at 916k which was the strongest job gain in seven months....

The first full trading week of April started quietly with many markets closed for Easter Monday. It wasn’t until the start of the New York trading session that the U.S. dollar started to move....

The most anticipated event risk this week was the March U.S. non-farm payrolls report. Nearly 1 million jobs were created, the most in seven months. Economists were looking for NFPs to rise...

Thanks to the Good Friday holiday and the long weekend, the foreign exchange markets should be quiet today. But the EUR/USD is one to watch in the days and weeks ahead, given the stark contrast in the...

After rising strongly in March, the U.S. dollar kicked off the month of April with losses against most of the major currencies. The sell-off was modest and represents nothing more than...