US Dollar Index (DXY) rises above 103.00, highest since April 2025 on Fed bets, Iran risks

The US Dollar Index (DXY) climbed above 103.00, reaching its highest level since April 2025, as traders priced in a firmer Federal Reserve path and heightened geopolitical risk tied to Iran. The dollar's gain reflects a rate-differential channel, where reduced expectations for near-term Fed easing lift US yields relative to peers and attract capital inflows into dollar-denominated assets. Simultaneously, Iran-related tensions feed a risk-off channel that boosts demand for the greenback as a safe-haven currency, with pressure falling most heavily on currencies of energy-importing economies and on riskier emerging-market assets. Oil and regional Gulf assets sit at the center of the geopolitical exposure, since supply disruption concerns can lift crude prices and feed back into inflation expectations and the Fed's policy outlook. Traders will watch the next US CPI release and any Fed speaker commentary on the policy path, as hotter inflation data would reinforce the rate-differential driver behind the dollar's advance.

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