Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.This weekend’s meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC members in Doha is important for currencies because when oil bottomed at the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. At the start of the week, we said the Canadian and Australian dollars could hit new multi-month highs and now that these...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The U.S. dollar traded higher against all of the major currencies Wednesday and its strength in the face of exceptionally weak...

The Bank of Canada (BoC) is expected to keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.50 percent on Wednesday, April 13 at 10:00 am EDT. The positive effect of a lower loonie has helped the service...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Since the beginning of the year, commodity currencies have been on a tear and after a brief dip, the Canadian, Australian and...

The yen is currently bulldozing the USD and as a result speculation about the reaction of the Bank of Japan has become front page news. Setting speculation about the BOJ’s chances of intervening...

Dovish FOMC Minutes Depreciated Dollar Before Global Risk Appetite Drop Brought it BackThe USD struggled all week to string gains against majors on the back of mixed economic data. The U.S. trade...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The biggest story in the foreign-exchange market this week was the USD/JPY collapse. But if we take a step back, it was not a...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. To the dismay of dollar bulls, the March FOMC minutes failed to rescue the dollar, causing the greenback to end the day lower...

The Canadian dollar depreciated today versus the USD. The U.S. dollar gained 0.67 versus the CAD in the last 24 hours. Risk off and traders squaring positions ahead of the release of the Federal Open...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. USD/JPY fell to a 6-month low Tuesday taking out 110 in the process. The currency pair has been under pressure for the past...

The Canadian dollar traded in a tight range versus the USD as the weak fundamentals in the U.S. cancelled out the drop in oil prices after doubts rose about the Doha crude price freeze.The USD did not...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.We have a very busy economic calendar this week filled with market-moving events that range from tier-1 economic reports, a...

Dovish Remarks from the Fed Kept the USD from Gaining on a Strong Jobs ReportEmployment remains the strongest and more resilient pillar of the U.S. economic recovery. The U.S. non farm payrolls (NFP)...