Australian Dollar futures experienced notable selling pressure today, trading near the lower boundary of their established five-week range at 0.713. While contracts managed to bounce slightly off their session lows, the currency remained down approximately 0.33% on the day, marking the heaviest losses among major G10 currency peers. The primary catalyst driving this downward movement is a resurgence in the U.S. dollar index, which climbed back above the 99 level. This dollar strength is being propelled by rising U.S. Treasury yields, fueled by heightened market inflation expectations. Notably, longer-term yields are pressing toward the upper thresholds of their multi-year ranges, with the 30-year yield testing key levels not seen since 2007. Despite the recent six-to-seven session pullback from nearly a four-year high established last week, the australian dollar continues to maintain a resilient posture near the top end of its long-term multi-year structural range.
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