Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Thursday's best-performing currency was sterling, which shot higher on the back of the Bank of England’s monetary policy...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time this year by 25bp and the U.S. dollar tanked. To the casual market...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The Federal Reserve is gearing up to raise interest rates for the first time in 2017 and instead rising, U.S. yields fell,...

USD/CAD has moved higher in the Tuesday session. In North American trade, the pair is trading slightly below the 1.35 line. On the release front, US PPI dipped to 0.3%, above the estimate of 0.1%....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.We may be nearing the end of the third quarter but this week will be one of its most important weeks. The Federal Reserve is...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Investors took profits on their long U.S. dollar positions on the back of Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report. Job growth...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Thanks to the strongest increase in private payrolls since April 2014, the U.S. dollar extended its gains against all of the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It's been a quiet start to what will surely be a busy week in the foreign-exchange market. There are two monetary policy...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. What a great week it has been for the U.S. dollar! The greenback took in gains against all of the major currencies, rising more...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.For the past few weeks, our daily notes have focused on the U.S. dollar because the market’s appetite for greenbacks...

GBP/USD Sinks as Brexit Final Touches Approaches, Awaiting UK PMIOnce again, GBP/USD dips to 1.2260 20-Jan-Fresh-lows with a reminder of Brexit bearish levels. The pair is downtrend for fifth...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Dollar bulls were back in control Wednesday with the greenback trading higher against all of the major currencies. USD/JPY...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It was another topsy-turvy day in the foreign-exchange market with the U.S. dollar spending most of Tuesday trading lower....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. U.S. and U.K. politics dominated currency flows on the first day of trading in the last week of February. One of the biggest...