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DXY has reached 101.30 and is testing 101.63–101.80 resistance near a two-month high, but the rally's momentum is flattening as two of its immediate tailwinds fade, the 10-year Treasury yield has retreated after testing the 5.24% area Monday, and oil has also pulled back. Neither move reverses the broader inflation-and-rates story, but both remove the marginal support that had been pushing Fed expectations and the Dollar higher.

Gold and Silver both sold off as the U.S. 10-year yield surged to a fresh multi-decade high near 5.232%, but BMO Capital Markets’ new long-term forecasts show Silver trading nearly 30% above its structural anchor of $47, versus Gold sitting just 4% above its $4,000 anchor—leaving Silver far more exposed to a premium unwind.

The RBA raised rates 25bp to 4.60% unanimously with hawkish statement language, yet AUD/USD reversed sharply after Governor Michele Bullock said further tightening was merely a “hope” rather than a base case, breaking the 0.7000 support zone within the hour.

Yen surged broadly Monday, pushing USD/JPY through 157, after Japan's Vice Finance Minister Atsushi Mimura sharpened Tokyo's intervention warning, saying markets should take the coordinated Japan-US message on Yen weakness "at face value.

Bitcoin may have completed a five-wave advance at 87,354, with 85,131.78 the pivot that decides whether the correction starts—but a pullback toward the 75,000–76,000 base could leave the broader rise intact and keep 100,000 in play.

Gold broke below 4,200 on Monday after taking out 4,234.68 and the 61.8% retracement at 4,230.70, turning a persistent oil-to-rates headwind into technical damage. 4,113.82 is the next momentum test, and 3,937.19–3,942.43 is the larger structural verdict.

The Dollar Index closed near 101.03 after a hawkish Fed-driven rally, but it’s now approaching genuine resistance at 101.80–102.86 rather than emerging from support—clearing that zone likely requires the 10-year Treasury yield, not the already-stretched 2-year, to extend further.

Today's themes: Dollar: gave back part of this week's yield-driven rally, weaker against EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, AUD and NZD (CAD the exception), but still on track for its first back-to-back weekly gain in more than three months as elevated Fed hike expectations and Treasury yields largely hold, a...

The Australian Dollar is the week’s worst-performing major currency even with a September RBA hike to 4.60% essentially fully priced—the weakness reflects position lightening ahead of uncertain vote composition and guidance, not doubt about the hike itself, with AUD/USD now testing 0.7006 support.

Gold has held its 4,230.70 support through a sharp Treasury yield surge to multi-decade highs, but the real test isn’t whether it can absorb a short-lived spike—it’s whether that support survives a sustained regime with the 10-year yield staying above 5%.

Dollar strengthened against every major currency Thursday as three drivers moved together: October Fed hike odds surged to 77.5%, from roughly 53% a day earlier and under 10% a month ago, pushing the 10-year Treasury yield to around 5.14%, its highest since 2007; Brent extended its rally above $105 as Houthi forces advanced toward the Bab el-Mandeb corridor, opening a second oil chokepoint alongside Hormuz; and the US and China extended their trade truce by only two months, to January 10, rather than locking in a more durable reset.

October Fed hike odds have surged to 69.7% on a booming flash PMI, driving the 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields to fresh multi-year highs—and pushing EUR/USD toward a structural decision zone at 1.1323–1.1353.

Brent completed a round trip, falling into the low $98s on Tuesday as traders priced a faster Hormuz reopening, then reclaiming $100 as focus shifted from whether Iran's diplomatic offer is real to how long any agreement would take to restore actual oil flows. CAD strengthened broadly on the oil rebound, but USD/CAD still edged higher because Dollar has an additional tailwind of its own: a hawkish week of Fed commentary keeping meaningful odds on an October hike.

With an SNB hold at 0% close to fully priced, EUR/CHF and GBP/CHF are already rolling over on a different mechanism—falling oil is easing inflation pressure elsewhere, reducing the need for other central banks to widen their rate advantage over Switzerland and relieving carry pressure on the Franc.

Gold and Silver face the same stronger-Dollar, more-hawkish-Fed headwind this week, yet Silver is outperforming and pulling the Gold/Silver ratio to a three-month low—a divergence that lines up circumstantially with renewed AI capex enthusiasm rather than anything gold-specific.

Brent broke below $100 after Saudi Arabia restarted its East-West Pipeline, capable of rerouting up to 4 million barrels per day, roughly 4% of global supply, around the Strait of Hormuz, and a senior Iranian official told Reuters Tehran could reopen Hormuz within seven days if Washington eases military pressure. Yet FX didn't confirm the move uniformly: CAD isn't broadly underperforming despite the drop, AUD and NZD diverged sharply from each other with no oil or data catalyst, and Dollar stayed broadly firm on the day's heat map even as oil fell.

Brent oil broke below $100 after Iran reportedly offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, but the quick recovery toward 99.55 shows markets are testing the story, not embracing it—making 100.26 the level that separates a genuine break from a false trigger.

Nasdaq hit a fresh record and Bitcoin broke above $84,000 just days after the Fed hiked and raised its projected rate path, as AI investment conviction and a separate regulatory catalyst overpowered the higher-rate headwind—though breadth remains narrow, with only about 30% of S&P 500 stocks above their 50-day averages.

Today's themes: Broad Dollar/FX: little conviction as markets wait for Wednesday's flash PMIs and this week's Trump-Xi summit; Dollar Index holding around 100.22 with its post-FOMC advance losing momentum. Oil: Brent fell to an 11-day low near $100 despite fresh Houthi attacks on Riyadh and Saudi Aramco's Yanbu facility,...

Gold is stalling just below 4,400 even as oil retreats and the Dollar’s post-FOMC rally loses steam, leaving India’s distorted physical demand as a plausible but unconfirmed partial explanation for the muted rebound.