Dollar index hit 11-day high in Asia as treasury yields rise

Dollar index remains bid as treasury yields continue to rise.
The 2-year yield hit fresh 9-year highs.

Omkar Godbole FXStreet Contributor

The dollar index (DXY), which tracks the value of the greenback against the basket of currencies, rose to 83.99 in Asia - the highest level since April 9.

The American currency picked up a bid in the US session yesterday, tracking the rally in Treasury yields. The 10-year yield rose above 2.9 percent and extended gains to a one month high of 2.914 percent in Asia. Further, the two-year yield rose to 2.44 percent - the highest level since September 2008. Meanwhile, Fed fund futures yields continue to price the next rate hike in June around 90%, according to Westpac.

Ahead in the day, the dollar will likely take cues from equities and treasuries, given there are no first-tier economic data scheduled for releases.

Dollar Index Technical Levels

Acceptance above 90.18 (March 29 high) would open the doors to 90.45 (March 20 high) and 90.60 (April 5 high). On the downside, break below 89.23 (April 17 low) could yield a pullback to 88.94 (March 27 low) and 88.55 (Feb. 1 low).

	TREND INDEX	OB/OS INDEX	VOLATILY INDEX
15M	Bullish	Neutral	High
1H	Bearish	Overbought	Expanding
4H	Bearish	Overbought	Expanding
1D	Strongly Bearish	Neutral	Low
1W	Bearish	Neutral	Shrinking
Updated Apr 20, 03:15 GMT

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Omkar Godbole

FXStreet Contributor

Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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