Currency Forecast

Negotiations surrounding the now 10-month-long, U.S.-Sino trade war took a significant step back yesterday after threats of additional tariffs tweeted by President Donald Trump threw a spanner in the...

Daily FX Market Roundup May 3, 2019Kathy Lien, Managing Director Of FX Strategy For BK Asset ManagementOn Friday the U.S. dollar turned lower despite good labor-market numbers and the move led...

Today’s Fed meeting, along with another round of promising trade talks between the world’s two largest economies, the U.S. and China, promise ample play for the world’s reserve...

Daily FX Market Roundup April 29, 2019Kathy Lien, Managing Director Of FX Strategy For BK Asset ManagementWith 2 monetary announcements, 3 employment reports, Eurozone GDP and PMIs scheduled for...

Daily FX Market Roundup April 24, 2019Kathy Lien, Managing Director Of FX Strategy For BK Asset ManagementThe US dollar traded higher against most of the major currencies this week thanks to a...

Daily FX Market Roundup April 24, 2019Kathy Lien, Managing Director Of FX Strategy For BK Asset ManagementDollar bulls are in control as the greenback rips higher against all of the major currencies....

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to renew his attack on the Fed over the weekend, blaming quantitative tightening for the stock market’s lack of continued record highs. The president...

The euro is strengthening at the expense of the dollar for a second straight day, bringing the single currency's gain to 0.9% since it bottomed on April 2. We find this euro strength surprising,...

Investors are currently trapped in a vicious cycle: they keep rotating out of the risk of stocks, into the safety of bonds, then into the safe-haven yen. In the meantime, traditional havens gold and...

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has kept the official cash rate at 1.75% But it was the forecast of lower rates which caught the market by surprise The New Zealand dollar fell 100 pips in the...

Brexit’s potential disruption to the financial system in general, and U.K. assets in particular, has proliferated news headlines ever since the country voted to leave the EU. It may therefore be...

Last week, the Fed downgraded its economic forecast and the 10-year Treasury yield crossed below the 3-month Treasury yield, which some view as the harbinger of recession. As well, Friday's equities...

Euro:* Large speculators continue to have a bearish view on the euro following another series of disappointing economic data of the Euro Zone * Net positioning stood at 78k vs 80k short previously - a...

Daily FX Market Roundup March 21, 2019Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset ManagementThe dovishness of the Federal Reserve should have been widely negative for the US dollar but...