Ashraf Laidi

About the Author

Ashraf Laidi is chief global strategist at City Index-FX Solutions and author of “Currency Trading & Intermarket Analysis.” His Intermarket Insight appears daily on AshrafLaidi.com.

EUR/GBP hinges on yield spread

Ashraf Laidi
September 20, 2016

The British pound/Japanese yen (GBP/JPY) and the GBP/U.S. Dollar currency pairs tanked following the Brexit vote, falling 20% and 15% respectively after the June 23 referendum.

Safe haven: Gold or yen?

Ashraf Laidi
July 25, 2016
As financial markets face escalating macro, liquidity and geopolitical risks, in addition to uncertainty with U.S. presidential elections, the search for that ultimate safe haven grows in importance.

Commodity currency play

Ashraf Laidi
May 19, 2016
Commodity currencies made a sharp recovery in Q1 with the help of the stabilization in metals and energy prices, as well as an increasingly dovish Federal Reserve.

The dollar is bleeding

Ashraf Laidi
March 18, 2016
A recurring question by technical and fundamental analysts has been whether the market rout of 2015-2016 will be similar to the limited declines of 2011 or that of the 2008-2009 credit crisis.

Best FX trade for 2016

Ashraf Laidi
January 19, 2016
Picking a favorite FX trade for 2016 is tricky because of the length of time and increasing volatility in global markets.

The January FX

Ashraf Laidi
November 27, 2015
You’ve probably heard about the January Effect, where the January performance of major U.S. equity indexes predicts their performance for the entire year.

Kill (dollar) bill

Ashraf Laidi
September 25, 2015
Has the U.S. dollar outdone its rally?

Dollar dangers down under

Ashraf Laidi
August 3, 2015
The AUD/NZD cross is one of the most trend-driven pairs in the currency markets and the climb from April’s record low of 1.0020 is the start of a new big trend.

Beware of parallels in dollar rally

Ashraf Laidi
May 15, 2015
The growing parallels between 2015 and 1998 in global market forces—soaring U.S. dollar, plummeting oil prices, rising equities, rising volatility and flattening U.S. yield curve—are startling.

The year of devaluating the yuan

Ashraf Laidi
March 16, 2015
Will the Chinese Year of the Goat see a prolonged weakness in the yuan by the People’s Bank of China? (PBOC) The yuan fell 3% against the U.S. dollar between October 2014 and mid-February 2015, and lost 4% during the first five months of 2014.