Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

Central Bank Policy, the OPEC Meeting and NFP to pack FX AgendaThe U.S. Memorial Day weekend will shorten the trading week and compress employment releases in a week that is already filled with major...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Friday's U.S. dollar traded higher against all of the major currencies as Yellen said -- a rate hike in the coming months may...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Thursday's U.S. dollar traded lower against all of the major currencies with the exception of the British pound, which...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.One of the best-performing currencies this month, this week and even on Wednesday is sterling. The British pound climbed to its...

The Canadian dollar resumed normal trading conditions after the Victoria day long weekend. The loonie has underperformed against the U.S. dollar as Canadian growth has slowed down and the Fed minutes...

The Victoria Day long weekend has come and gone for traders of the Canadian dollar and we’re back full steam ahead for tonight’s Bank of Canada rate decision. USD/CAD has rallied hard...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.There was very little consistency in the performance of the U.S. dollar Monday leaving the Japanese yen as the currency that set...

Trading opportunities for currency pair: the GBP/CAD has an inverted cup with handle pattern forming on it. After a fall in the rate to 1.8855, a strengthening of the pound to 1.9640 is expected....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It has certainly been a busy week in the foreign-exchange market with the dollar rising against most of the major currencies....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.At the start of Thursday's North American trading session, the U.S. dollar hit new highs against many of the major currencies....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It's rare for Fed minutes to trigger such a big move in the U.S. dollar but when the market feels one way and the Fed signals...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Over the past 6 trading days the U.S. dollar has been quietly consolidating its gains versus the Japanese yen, waiting for its...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.With many European markets closed for Whit Monday, it was a relatively quiet and subdued North American session for currencies....

This week, the USD/CAD pair has been under pressure amid poor macroeconomic data from the US and uncertainty over the timing of interest rate increases in the country. The number of initial jobless...