Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. While the U.S. dollar traded higher against most of the major currencies Wednesday, the NY session was marked by profit taking...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It’s a new trading week and the U.S. dollar has hit fresh multi-month highs against the euro, Japanese yen, Swiss franc...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Given how quickly and aggressively the U.S. dollar soared since Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. Presidential election,...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Investors continued to buy U.S. dollars Thursday, 48 hours after the 2016 Presidential election. We didn’t get a chance...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It’s Election Day here in the U.S. and in a few hours we’ll know who becomes the 45th President of the United...

USD/CAD is almost unchanged in the Tuesday session, as all eyes are on the US presidential election. Currently, the pair is trading at 1.3370. On the release front, we’ll get a look at the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Now that the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting and U.S. nonfarm payrolls reports are behind us, investors can...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Thursday's best-performing currency was the British pound, which gained more than 1% versus the euro, U.S. dollar and many...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. With 7 days to go before one of the most dramatic U.S. presidential elections in history, politics is clearly overshadowing...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. We’ve had a relatively quiet start to a very busy week in the foreign-exchange market but that will soon change with the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset ManagementYou should be trading currencies next week because excluding the U.S. Presidential election on November 8, the next 5 days are...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The big story in the foreign-exchange market Thursday was USD/JPY and its break above 105. For the past 5 trading days, USD/JPY...

USD/CAD is almost unchanged on Thursday, as the pair trades at 1.3370. In the US, there are two key releases on the schedule – core durable goods orders and unemployment claims. There are no...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Over the past 24 hours, many of our clients have asked if the U.S. dollar has peaked and is now prime for a major reversal....