Category: Forex

Carry trade: Selective opportunities as theory collides...

Commerzbank’s Thu Lan Nguyen discusses the renewed popularity of FX carry trades as hopes grow for an end to the Middle East war. ...

Crude Oil jumps as Tehran walks and Washington waves it...

Crude Oil spent all of May bleeding out a war premium on the assumption that a US-Iran deal was a formality, and on Monday the mar...

Global markets: Policy volatility contrasts with calm a...

HSBC Asset Management observes that 2026 has brought sharp swings in rate expectations for the Bank of England and European Centra...

Forex Today: US Dollar gains ground after strong Manufa...

The US Dollar Index (DXY) rises toward the 99.20 region on Monday after stronger-than-expected US manufacturing data reinforced co...

USD/CHF Price Forecast: Bullish piercing pattern surfac...

The USD/CHF pair forms a ‘bullish piercing’ chart pattern on Monday, which confirms further upside, but it faces key resistance at...

China: Moderate slowdown with modest policy support – B...

BNP Paribas reports that Chinese GDP growth accelerated to 5.0% year-on-year in Q1 2026 from 4.5% in Q4 2025, but is expected to s...

Japanese Yen drifts back to the intervention line, dari...

The Japanese Yen (JPY) keeps doing the one thing Tokyo least wants: drifting weaker into the zone where intervention becomes a liv...

New Zealand Dollar rides the RBNZ hawks into a payrolls...

The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) is in an odd spot: it has one of the few central banks in the developed world openly leaning toward h...

British Pound sits out its own week, hostage to US payr...

Pound Sterling has the rare luxury, or curse, of a completely blank week. There is no first-tier United Kingdom data on the docket...

CEE FX: Cautious start with HUF still favoured – ING

ING’s Frantisek Taborsky expects Central and Eastern European FX to start the month cautiously despite improving sentiment and bus...

Japan: Debt worries seen overstated – Commerzbank

Volkmar Baur at Commerzbank argues that market concerns over Japan’s fiscal stance are exaggerated, even after a new 3.1 trillion ...

Australian Dollar wilts as Lebanon flare-up lifts the U...

The Australian Dollar loses traction and edges down 0.30% on Monday as risk appetite soured due to Iran halting negotiations with ...