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Daily FX Market Roundup 01.28.20 Kathy Lien, Managing Director Of FX Strategy For BK Asset Management After experiencing their largest one-day decline in months, stocks rebounded on Tuesday. While...

Daily FX Market Roundup 01.27.20By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset ManagementBetween the Federal Reserve and Bank of England’s monetary policy announcements, investors...

The CAD/JPY has taken a big hit this week due to both a weakening Canadian dollar and a stronger Japanese Yen. The continued hit to Canadian data, this time in the form of weaker inflation data, and...

Daily FX Market Roundup 01.23.20By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset ManagementCurrencies sold off sharply today as the coronavirus virus spreads to new countries. China may be...

Daily FX Market Roundup 01.17.20By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management The U.S. dollar wraps up another good week with gains against most of the major currencies. The...

With both the U.S. and Canada releasing employment figures today, USD/CAD warrants a look. Data has generally undershot expectation for Canada since the end of November. Given the Bank of...

The US Dollar Index (DXY) has been in an upward sloping channel since early May of last year. Price hit a high of 99.67 on Oct. 1, 2019, and has pulled back to current levels near 97.00. There are...

The U.S. dollar has been attracting a lot of attention for a while now, especially given its continued rise, even after the Fed reversed its policy in July. That was when the U.S. central bank cut...

It’s the moment of truth for the yuan. Will it resume its rally since Sept. 3, the bottom for the Chinese currency? Or, will it return to its overall decline since the 2014 peak?The yuan seems...

As we noted yesterday, this time of year is notorious for low-liquidity trading, and more often than not, lackluster markets, as traders plan their New Year’s celebrations.One currency...

Last week the charts were indicating that the U.S. dollar was reaching a critical price level. And right now it is retesting that level — the December lows. The dollar is subject to multiple...

Daily FX Market Roundup 12.30.19By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management2019 has been a busy year for the financial markets. The biggest driving forces were trade war,...

On Friday, the DXY was down over 0.6%, and today the selloff continues. The price today is down nearly another 0.4% in U.S. trading as the DXY looks to test the spike lows from the Christmas night....

Historically, the yen climbs during January as Japanese investors repatriate the currency and adjust portfolios, increasing yen demand. At the same time, other non-American investors do the same,...