Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Currency traders are bracing for a busy week in the financial markets. There are 2 monetary policy announcements, 4...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Thanks to the Bank of Japan, we’ve had a very exciting end to the first trading month of the year. 2016 started and ended...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. There’s nothing more important to currency, equity and commodity investors right now than the outlook for oil. At the...

The U.S. Federal Reserve release its statement after January’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington. As the market had anticipated there was no change to the benchmark...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Don’t be fooled by the U.S. dollar’s muted reaction to the FOMC statement. Every change that the Federal Reserve...

The Canadian dollar recovered from yesterday’s losses as it was boosted by the rising price of crude. The rumours of a possible cooperation between Russia and the OPEC have appreciated the price...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.This is an important week for the U.S. dollar, but how the greenback performs will be determined by whether the Federal Reserve...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.What a week it has been in the foreign-exchange market! The turnaround in oil, recovery in currencies and rebound in global...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.It is not your ordinary day in the foreign-exchange market when the Russian ruble and the Mexican peso hits record lows while...

This Great Graphic, composed on Bloomberg, shows two time series. The white line is the premium the U.S. government pays to borrow over the Canadian government for two years. The yellow line the U.S....

Plunging Oil Prices and Scarce Details on Fiscal Stimulus Might Force BoC to Cut Interest RateAt the end of 2015 the possibility of a rate cut from the Canadian central bank in January was low with...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The worst-performing currency over the past 3 months is hands down the Canadian dollar. The loonie lost more 10% of its value...

The USD/CAD continues to follow the movements in the price of crude. The Iran sanctions that prevented the nation’s crude to be part of international trade were lifted on Saturday and put...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.With U.S. markets closed for Martin Luther King Day, it has been a quiet start to another busy week in the foreign-exchange...