The US Dollar Index (DXY) measures the US Dollar's value against a basket of six currencies: Euro (57.6%), Japanese Yen (13.6%), British Pound (11.9%), Canadian Dollar (9.1%), Swedish Krona (4.2%), and Swiss Franc (3.6%).
Every figure in these two tables is derived from one input: how much Dollar Index (DXY) normally moves in a session (0.4–0.6%), scaled outward from the live price above. It's a statistical band, not a forecast of an exact print — the same caveat that applies to the Tomorrow Prediction section above applies here too.
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The DXY's direction is almost entirely determined by the interest rate differential between US Treasuries and comparable sovereign bonds in the Eurozone, Japan, UK, Canada, Sweden, and Switzerland. FOMC decisions are the highest-impact events for DXY.
A rising DXY creates triple pressure on India: (1) The Rupee weakens; (2) Commodity prices in USD terms tend to fall; (3) Foreign capital exits Indian bonds and equities. Historically, sustained DXY above 105–106 has coincided with Indian equity market corrections.
DXY is not a broad global Dollar measure — it is fixed to six specific developed-market currencies set when the index launched in 1973, weighted by trade volume at that time: Euro (57.6%), Japanese Yen (13.6%), British Pound (11.9%), Canadian Dollar (9.1%), Swedish Krona (4.2%), and Swiss Franc (3.6%). Notably absent: the Chinese Yuan, Indian Rupee, and any emerging-market currency, despite China and India being far larger trade partners with the US today than in 1973. This means DXY is really a Dollar-versus-Europe-and-Japan gauge more than a true global Dollar strength measure — a nuance that matters when DXY and the Rupee occasionally diverge.
DXY has ranged from below 80 (2008, 2014, and briefly 2021 during ultra-loose Fed policy) to above 120 (2001–2002 dot-com aftermath, and again in September 2022 during the most aggressive Fed hiking cycle in decades). The 100 level is considered a rough dividing line between a "weak Dollar" and "strong Dollar" regime by many macro traders. The 105–106 zone has repeatedly acted as a level where EM outflows and commodity weakness intensify — worth watching whenever DXY approaches it.
DXY rising 1% = MCX Gold typically -0.6 to -0.9%, MCX Crude -0.4 to -0.7%, MCX Copper -0.5 to -0.8%. This holds approximately 75% of the time.
DXY direction is driven less by what the Federal Reserve does in isolation and more by how Fed policy compares to the ECB, Bank of Japan, and Bank of England simultaneously. If the Fed cuts rates but the ECB cuts faster, DXY can still rise even as US rates fall — because the interest-rate advantage of holding Dollars over Euros widens. This is why professional DXY traders track all four major central banks' meeting calendars together, not the Fed's calendar alone.
Before the MCX session opens, checking DXY's overnight direction against its previous close takes under two minutes and gives a directional bias for Gold, Silver, Crude, and every base metal simultaneously — since all of them share the same DXY inverse relationship to varying degrees. A DXY that gapped up overnight is a headwind bias for the entire commodity complex; a DXY that gapped down is a tailwind. This single check does not replace deeper analysis, but it is the fastest available filter for the day's likely commodity tone.
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