Currencies and Forex Analysis & Opinion

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Trading the U.S. dollar requires patience and precision because for the past few weeks the greenback struggled to break its...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Tips on Trading the Dollar Post Yellen & Pre-NFP This week, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen breathed new life into the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.The decline in U.S. rates drove investors out of U.S. dollars Thursday as the greenback moved lower against most of the major...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Here’s 3 Reasons Why AUD Broke 70 Cents Since the beginning of the year, the Australian dollar has been one of the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Will Euro Break 1.10? For the next 24 hours, the foreign-exchange market's focus will be on the euro, but before discussing...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Euro: Look Out Below One of the worst-performing currencies Monday was the euro, which lost more than 1% of its value against...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Investors sold U.S. dollars after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Thursday citing uncertainty abroad and...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Best Way to Trade the FOMC Rate Decision The best way to trade the September FOMC rate decision and any major event with this...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Trading FOMC Is Not A Simple Binary BetWhile there’s a 28% chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike this week according to...

There is much data that will be reported in the week ahead. The US reports consumer prices, retail sales and industrial output figures. The eurozone reports industrial production and the final August...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.Next Week's FX Trade In 6 PointsWe all know that next week is going to be an important one for the financial markets because the...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Central Banks Step Up Verbal/Physical Intervention GBP: BoE Not as Dovish as we Fear AUD Soars on Rise in Employment CAD Lifted...

Kicking off the upcoming onslaught of central-bank meetings, the Bank of Canada opted to leave interest rates unchanged at 0.50% today, as widely expected. Some economists and traders were speculating...

A busy day/night for central bank meetings with the Bank of Canada tonight, into the Reserve Bank of New Zealand tomorrow morning. Throw in some Australian RBA board members speaking and the general...