Canadian dollar

Investor sentiment is highly disconnected over tariffs as equities and forex markets are showing significant divergence in response to the announcements. This comes amid President Donald Trump's take on yen and yuan's devaluation. What Happened: According to the senior fellow at the Brookings...

The Bank of Canada announced on Wednesday a 25 basis point reduction in interest rates, marking the first cut since March 2020, as widely anticipated by market participants. Consequently, the benchmark overnight rate and the deposit rate have been lowered to 4.75%, while the Bank Rate is now at 5...

Amidst China’s prolonged economic slump due to the impact of COVID-19, the offshore Yuan (CNH) has experienced significant depreciation against the Canadian Dollar (CAD), creating an enticing bottom-fishing opportunity for investors and traders. From a technical perspective, the pair has...

The EUR/CAD pair is displaying a compelling technical setup, with a 78.6% retracement and lower highs combined with pivot point resistance providing triple confirmation of an impending depreciation of the Euro against the Canadian Dollar. The European Central Bank (ECB) is currently grappling with...

Canadian inflation data is scheduled to be released tomorrow morning EST, and analysts widely anticipate it to reflect slowing inflation. The prior month’s report indicated that Canada’s annual inflation rate dropped to 3.4% in May 2023, compared to 4.4% in the previous month, marking...

Investment banking firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) is recommending shorting the U.S. dollar on the odds of Democrat Joe Biden winning the November election and a coronavirus vaccine materializing soon. Both factors are negative for the greenback in Goldman Sachs' view, according to...

The U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the value of the U.S. dollar against a basket of foreign currencies, has gained about 3.2 percent year-to-date through Oct. 11.  This is where the greenback stands year-to-date against other major currencies: Euro: +3.4 percent Pound: +2.1 percent...

Currencies are a popular investment class that allow for speculation on price movements, just like bets on other asset classes. Foreign exchange, or forex in short, is a decentralized global market where currency pairs are traded. Currency trading takes place electronically over-the-counter across...

Vexing currency market observers, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP) is down 8.4 percent year to date. That is an arguably stunning decline when considering the Federal Reserve has boosted interest rates twice this year. UUP, the exchange-traded fund proxy for the U.S....

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates earlier this week, marking the second time this year that the U.S. central bank has boosted borrowing costs. That move by the Fed has helped the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP), widely viewed as a dud this year among developed market...

The Federal Reserve is expected to continue boosting interest rates throughout the remainder of 2017, and doing so is likely to hurt the Canadian dollar. According to a Bloomberg report, the Bank of Canada isn't expected to match the Fed's rate hikes this year which will put pressure on the "loonie...