By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The U.S. dollar is off to a strong start this week as the greenback recovered earlier losses against the euro and British pound...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. In quiet summer months, less liquidity can often mean greater volatility for the foreign-exchange market. We saw a classic ...
When investing in U.S. energy equities, it's important to keep in mind that the Trump administration has a very different attitude toward energy production than the Obama administration. President ...
Breaking News: The euro has plunged most of a cent with the ECB indicating that the market has misjudged ECB President Draghi’s comments from Tuesday as more hawkish than intended. Hawkish ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management Summer must be here because it was an extremely quiet day in the forex market. Aside from the Canadian dollar’s big move ...
Stock markets are off to a positive start this week led by a 1.5% gain by Italy’s FTSE MIB, which is rallying on the back of news that two troubled Italian banks are being rescued / taken over ...
Major indices around the world have been giving back some of yesterday’s gains overnight. For the US, Dow and SPX futures are flat but NASDAQ futures are down 0.4% being dragged down by Google ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. By all counts, it was an extremely quiet week in the foreign-exchange market. There was very little change in the U.S. dollar, ...
by Chaim Siegel of Elazar Associates LLC Gold prices have been down for nearly two straight weeks. Any lower and you break an uptrend, which is worrisome. There are three factors bothering gold which ...
by Chaim Siegel of Elazar Associates LLC We’re in a race right now, a technology land grab. Technology and the way it's being used is changing quickly. The most aggressive companies will likely ...
Today looks like it could be active for trading across a number of fronts. The impact of yesterday's big drop inm the price of oil on energy stocks has been working its way through world markets ...
Stock markets are mixed so far today with US index futures the Nikkei and the Hang Seng flat. European markets are down slightly with the FTSE and Dax both down 0.5%. Crude oil continues to stabilize,...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25bp Wednesday and Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s optimism plus hawkishness caught...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. We are coming off the heels of an interesting week for the U.S. dollar. The greenback hit a near-term bottom against European ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Friday’s nonfarm payroll report sealed the U.S. dollar's fate. As hiring and wages eased in May, investors scaled back ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. On the surface, it appears to have been a great week for the US dollar with EUR/USD peaking below 1.13 and USD/JPY climbing ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Tuesday was a lively session in the foreign-exchange market despite the lack of market-moving data as the moves in FX were led ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It's going to be a very busy week in the foreign-exchange market and Monday's moves show us which currencies are the most ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. On the eve of the Federal Reserve’s quarterly monetary policy announcement, no one is buying U.S. dollars. The greenback ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. No major U.S. economic reports were released Tuesday but the weight of recent data sent USD/JPY tumbling below 110. The decline...
