Dollar stays near 18-month high as Mideast conflict, inflation data in focus

Business Recorder • Oct 12, 2026

SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI: The dollar held ground near its strongest level in a year and a half in early Asian trade on Monday ​as an escalating Middle East conflict kept investors wary ahead of key US inflation data later this week that will influence monetary ‌pol...

SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI: The dollar held ground near its strongest level in a year and a half in early Asian trade on Monday ​as an escalating Middle East conflict kept investors wary ahead of key US inflation data later this week that will influence monetary ‌policy. Oil prices swung between gains and losses after Yemen’s Houthis stepped up strikes on Saudi Arabia while two tankers were attacked over the weekend. Prices...