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Wall Street turns gloomy on US dollar as haven demand fades

Investors are once again focusing on the headwinds that drove the dollar down 8 per cent in 2025

The war in the Middle East caught the market wrong-footed as many traders were betting on greenback weakness to start the year.

Global investors boost US dollar-hedging ratio to two-year high

Hedging ratio on the greenback rises to 63% as of Apr 10

The dollar rallied as Asian markets opened for trading.

Dollar jumps as failed US-Iran peace talks spark fresh safe-haven push

[LONDON] The dollar jumped against other major currencies in thin trading late on Sunday, as investors sought the relative safety of the US currency after marathon talks between Washington and Teheran...

Several Asian currencies have weakened against the US dollar over the past month.

Oil rout gives Asian currencies some breathing room – if Middle East ceasefire holds

But lower prices alone may not be enough to drive a sustained recovery, analysts say

Prior to the conflict, the ringgit strengthened to an eight-year high of RM3.88 per US dollar.

Malaysia importers use ceasefire window to buy US dollars, Citi says

The ringgit has been under pressure since the start of the Iran war, falling to 4.0512 against the US dollar

The US dollar lost over 12 per cent versus a basket of other top currencies between January last year and this year, although it has reclaimed around a third of the ground since.

Central banks’ concern over rising geopolitical tensions surges: survey

Almost 70 per cent of banks surveyed ranked geopolitics as their top risk

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The US dollar is not dead – but that should not be the focus for Singapore investors

The biggest financial risk is that inflation would erode their purchasing power

An unverified still image which Iran's Revolutionary Guards, quoting Iranian media, said shows the US aircraft destroyed during the Americans' mission to find a stranded airman in Iran on Sunday (Apr 5).

The Iran war just broke the petrodollar

For the first time since 1996, global central banks now hold more gold than US government bonds. The war is making this look like a signal

Rather than reassuring markets that he could bring the war to a swift end, some of US President's Trump's remarks appeared to rattle investors.

US to hit Iran ‘extremely hard’ over the next two to three weeks: Trump in address to nation

In his speech, Trump cast the war as a success, saying the operation had nearly achieved its military goals.

US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the White House, Washington, D.C., April 1, 2026.

Stocks slide, dollar advances after Trump speech on Iran war

The greenback rose against most currencies after the speech