Currency Analysis & Comment

The first full trading week of April started quietly with many markets closed for Easter Monday. It wasn’t until the start of the New York trading session that the U.S. dollar started to move....

The most anticipated event risk this week was the March U.S. non-farm payrolls report. Nearly 1 million jobs were created, the most in seven months. Economists were looking for NFPs to rise by...

Thanks to the Good Friday holiday and the long weekend, the foreign exchange markets should be quiet today. But the EUR/USD is one to watch in the days and weeks ahead, given the stark contrast in the...

After rising strongly in March, the U.S. dollar kicked off the month of April with losses against most of the major currencies. The sell-off was modest and represents nothing more than profit-taking...

March was a tough month for the euro. The single currency fell to its weakest level in four months against the U.S. dollar and its lowest level in a year against sterling. Since the beginning of the...

The US Dollar Index traded sharply higher against all of the major currencies on Tuesday, with the latest gains taking the greenback to fresh one-year highs against the Japanese Yen and four-month...

It has been a great week to be long U.S. dollars. The greenback traded higher against all of the major currencies, and these gains drove the Dollar Index to its strongest level in four months. For the...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.comThe USD/CAD has hit resistance again after staging a decent recovery in the past few days. But given the US dollar’s recent good run of form and...

Of late, currency analysts in China have become vehemently bearish on the US dollar, citing America's rising debt load, in particular the recent, massive, Biden administration fiscal aid package and...

The U.S. dollar traded higher against most of the major currencies Tuesday despite weaker new home sales and cautious comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Along with his peers, Powell...

One of the best performing currencies today was the euro. After selling off quickly and aggressively in the first week of March from a high of 1.21 to a low of 1.1835, the single currency quietly...

Actions speak louder than words for U.S. dollar traders who sent the greenback sharply higher after the Federal Reserve said the temporary change to the supplementary leverage ratio, or SLR, for...

The U.S. dollar traded higher against all of the major currencies on Thursday, erasing most of its post-FOMC losses. The Federal Reserve has no plans to raise interest rates until 2023, but the...

Consensus has Russia’s central bank keeping interest rates unchanged—at 4.25%, a record low—when fiscal policymakers release their next rate decision on Friday. Rates have remained at that level since...