Dollar near three-and-a-half month high, bolstered by rising U.S. bond yields...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The greenback listed close to a 3-1/2 month high against a basket of currencies on Thursday, bolstered by higher U.S. Treasury yields, diode by the 10-year benchmark breaching the three p.c threshold on for the primary time in four years.
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield (US10YT=RR) set a recent four-year high of three.035 p.c on Wed, driven by worries concerning the growing offer of presidency debt and inflationary pressures from rising oil costs.
The recent jump in U.S. bond yields has caused U.S.-Japan and U.S.-German yield differentials to widen any within the dollar's favor, effort the yen and therefore the monetary unit lower.
In Asian mercantilism on Thursday, the 10-year Treasury yield last stood at three.022 p.c.
The dollar's index against a basket of six major currencies was at ninety one.181 (DXY), having up to a high of ninety one.261 on Wed, its strongest level since Jan. 12.
The greenback index has advanced over zero.9 p.c up to now on, putt it on target for its biggest weekly gain in additional than 2 months.
"Unless there's a awfully unlikely huge meltdown in U.S. equity markets, it's uncertain the Fed can waver on a June rate hike," Sir Leslie Stephen Innes, head of mercantilism in Asia-Pacific for Oanda in Singapore wrote in an exceedingly note.
"With equity market sentiment holding firm within the face of rising bond yields, the almighty greenback may move through G-10 currency market sort of a wrecking ball," Innes more.
Wall Street limped into positive territory on Wed on optimism over a spate of upbeat earnings, though that was nearly offset by jitters over rising U.S. bond yields and company prices.
The monetary unit edged up zero.1 p.c to $1.2177 (EUR=), however was still nearby of a close to two-month low of $1.2160 assail Wed.
The common currency has support on technical charts at around $1.2155, an occasional touched on March one. A drop below that level would take the monetary unit to its lowest since Jan. 12.
The near-term focus is on the eu Central Bank's rates review due presently Thursday.
The ECB is about to stay policy unchanged on Thursday, taking part in down worries over recent softness within the monetary unit zone economy and effort the door receptive ending its lavish bond purchase theme by the shut of the year.
Against the yen, the greenback mitigated zero.1 p.c to one09.38 yen . Earlier on Thursday, the U.S. currency touched a 2-1/2 month high of 109.49 yen.
The greenback has gained nearly two.9 p.c against the yen up to now in Gregorian calendar month, putt it on target for its biggest monthly gain since Gregorian calendar month 2016.