Forex Opinion & Analysis

The market keeps buzzing around the Brexit divorce deal, triggering further volatility spikes and creating good profit-making opportunities. As expected, British prime minister Theresa May suffered a...

Welcome to 2019 - or rather, our first Rand Review of 2019, as back-to-work mode starts in earnest. Trust you have had a well-deserved rest and are refreshed and charged for the year ahead. As for the...

Volumes are expected back from this week. Let’s get to it. EURUSD I had to zoom right out on this one to make some sense out of it. I like the upside on EURUSD for the time being for a few...

The GBP/USD has consolidated around 1.2750 support, trying to build up a stronger momentum. The U.K. government will hold a vote on its Brexit deal in the House of Commons on January 15, confirming...

Today’s biggest market-mover has been the dollar. Yesterday it fell more than 0.5%, as US stocks rallied. Right now, the global reserve currency is pushing higher, wreaking havoc in Asia and...

Daily FX Market Roundup Jan 7, 2019 By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. Over the past 30 days, nothing has been more influential to currencies than risk appetite...

The much-anticipated Fed interest rate decision finally is behind us, and no one was disappointed. The currency traders especially, considering that besides the USD knee-jerk reaction, the market is...

One of the overarching directives of the Federal Reserve is to manage monetary policy so that the national currency remains stable and economic growth doesn't become unsustainable. To that end, the...

Welcome to our last Rand Review of 2018... Phew! A tumultuous week draws to a close...what next? The Rand was relatively stable despite the week, but really, what next was going to be happening...

The above chart shows daily price action. Further to our previous article, the USDZAR has broken above its down sloping green trendline. Trendlines measure the speed of trends and this break...

Sterling remains highly volatile in the past few weeks amid the UK’ divorce from EU. All eyes are on the Brexit deal. No wonder that every market participant who is even slightly aware of the...

Historical ECB meeting in front of us today as the central bank is about to announce the end of the QE in the Eurozone. For all the fuzz during the last years, the QE (i.e., quantitative easing...

The USD is higher across the board, and many wonder what can make the USD rise stall? Looking ahead at the year’s end calendar, there’s little to make USD bears happy. On every currency...

A rosy November suddenly seems a long time away from a battling Rand... The plague of Eskom, Land Expropriation and political disunity continued to hurt the local currency... ...not to mention the...