LONDON/SINGAPORE—The U.S. dollar rose to a 15-month high against the rouble on Monday after dramatic weekend events in Russia, which saw an aborted mutiny by armed mercenaries.
The dollar index also found some safe-haven support on lingering worries that the protracted monetary tightening cycles from major central banks would further hurt the global economic outlook.
Traders were closely monitoring developments in Russia, after armed Russian mercenaries withdrew from the southern Russian city of Rostov under a deal that halted their advance on Moscow.
The Russian rouble tumbled against the dollar. It was 0.2 percent weaker at 84.88 at 0843 GMT, after hitting 87.23 in earlier trade, its weakest point since late March 2022….