Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It has been an interesting start to another busy week in the foreign-exchange market. There were no U.S economic reports...

The daily chart of the CAD/USD is one of those examples where the description of technical analysis being an art and not a science, neatly sums up the price action of the last three months with...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. For the fourth time in five months, the U.S. economy added more than 200k jobs but the impact on the dollar was limited by the...

US Employment Expanded But Hourly Wages Contracted Deflating USDThe U.S. non farm payrolls (NFP) report for February painted a mixed picture of U.S. employment. The American economy added 242,000 jobs...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. With fewer than 24 hours to go before the most important event risk this week -- U.S. nonfarm payrolls, the U.S. dollar is...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Get ready for some big moves in currencies this month. Between Friday’s U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, next week’s...

The Canadian dollar has recovered from the lows suffered at the beginning of the year when the price of oil plummeted rapidly as a supply glut and record high production levels were announced. The...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. If you think this past week was busy in foreign exchange, next week is certainly going to be even more active. Between the end...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. After the big move in currencies at the start of the week there was a sense of calm on Thursday in the foreign-exchange market....

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Wednesday an incredibly active day in the foreign-exchange market with many major currencies experiencing big moves. The focus...

The Canadian dollar retreated on Tuesday after comments from Saudi oil minister Ali Ibrahim Naimi that the current agreement between Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Investors have a lot to be worried about these days, which explains why most of the major currencies traded lower on Tuesday....

Oil Volatility, Central Bank Comments and G20 to Spark Global CooperationThe USD had mixed results versus major pairs during the past week. The greenback advanced against the EUR, GBP and CHF but the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It has been a very busy week in the forex market with investors mostly focused on the British pound, Japanese yen and commodity...