Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The first week of May is generally a difficult one for forex trading. Many markets are closed on May Day (May 1) and Japan...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. After all of the excitement from the French election, Donald Trump’s “big” tax-reform announcement and the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It was no surprise that the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged on Thursday. Investors were focused on ECB...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Before we preview Thursday’s European Central Bank monetary policy meeting, it's important to talk about what affected...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Forex traders are not the only ones hanging their hopes on Donald Trump, who plans to make a big announcement on tax reform on...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The euro exploded higher after centrist Emmanuel Macron “won” the first round of the French Presidential election....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The two most actively traded currency pairs — EUR/USD and USD/JPY broke above important resistance levels on Thursday....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It says a lot when consistently softer economic data can’t bring down a currency. The U.S. dollar refuses to fall despite...

Foreign investment in Canadian securities reached a record high $38.8 billion in February, led by issuances of new Canadian shares to non-resident investors. At the same time, Canadian investors...

The USD traded with an offered bias during the last 24 hours, weighed down by geopolitical concerns and Friday’s US CPI report. However, there was a small shift in fortunes as weak dollar shorts...

Due to lower liquidity, trading over the holidays is never easy. However less participation does not always mean consolidation, especially during these times when the market is particularly...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. European currencies underperformed commodity currencies Thursday as stronger data out of Asia sent the Australian and New...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It was another day of headline-driven volatility in the foreign-exchange market with the U.S. dollar crashing on the back of...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The U.S. dollar traded lower against all of the major currencies Monday on the back of rising geopolitical tensions and...