By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The Federal Reserve breathed new life into the U.S. dollar this week by confirming that it sees one more rate hike this year. ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Consolidation was the theme of the day after Wednesday’s big moves in currencies. The only action was in the Australian ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The Federal Reserve has every intention to raise interest rates one more time this year and 3 times in 2018. This unambiguously...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Investors have been buying U.S. assets aggressively ahead of Thursday’s Federal Reserve announcement because they believe...
All good things come to an end, right? That was the story of this week as the weight of all the negative news and economic events took its toll on the Rand, crashing it as high as R13.26... So now, ...
This week I’m highlighting eight markets that show profit potential, in a 30-second-each overview. Let’s get to it. AUD/USD Last week, I wrote about the pin-bar that had formed on the ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It was a challenging week for the U.S. dollar but dollar bulls put up a good fight. Despite a weaker retail sales report and ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Thanks to the Bank of England, U.S. data and North Korea, it was an extremely lively day in the foreign-exchange market. The ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The mighty dollar’s persistent strength was Wednesday's biggest story of the day. The greenback’s broad-based gains...
The Technicals After what appears to have been a false break of the R12.85/$ level, the rand has resumed is short term weakness against the US Dollar and is now finding resistance at the R13.15 level....
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. USD/JPY may have taken out 110 but we did not see broad-based gains for the greenback on Tuesday. The dollar traded higher ...
The United States is enduring a very difficult period... Having just been hit with Hurricane Harvey, one of the most destructive hurricanes we have seen in quite some time... ...along comes an ...
Well, it looks like a trick to me. I’m talking about the lovely reversal pin-bar that printed on Friday last week. I think it’s going to fail. In fact, I think it’s going to catch a ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Dollar bulls came charging back Monday and they took the greenback higher against all of the major currencies. The biggest ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. September is traditionally an active month in the foreign-exchange market as investors are back from their holidays and ready ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. The euro soared on Thursday breaking above 1.20 and hitting a high of 1.2060 following the European Central Bank’s ...
By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. It is only the third official trading day in September and we’ve already gotten a taste of the wild swings that can be ...
