Data to 5 October 2026

Is the world helping or hurting Indian shares?

The broad dollar

121.4
index, 2 Oct 2026

Above its usual range of 93.8 to 117.2. The record is 130.0, in January 2025. Up from 120.4 a year ago.

201020152020202580.090.0100.0120.0130.0130.0, Jan 202585.5, Jul 2011usual range, 93.8 to 117.2121.4201020152020202580.090.0100.0110.0120.0130.0130.0, Jan 202585.5, Jul 2011usual range, 93.8 to 117.2121.4201020152020202580.090.0100.0110.0120.0130.0130.0, Jan 202585.5, Jul 2011usual range, 93.8 to 117.2121.4200820102012201420162018202020222024202680.090.0100.0110.0120.0130.0130.0, Jan 202585.5, Jul 2011usual range, 93.8 to 117.2121.4

What it is. The US dollar against a basket of its trading partners' currencies.

How to read it. A strong dollar tends to draw money out of emerging markets and weigh on the rupee.

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates Method Data

The numbers

Latest121.42 Oct 2026
A week ago120.3
A month ago118.5
A year ago120.4
Usual range93.8 to 117.2
Median110.3
Lowest85.526 Jul 2011
Highest130.013 Jan 2025
Percentile, full history90
Percentile, last 5 years62

The usual range is the middle half of readings since 2006. A percentile is the share of the 5,203 readings since 2 Jan 2006 that were below today's. Data: statistics, history (JSON); history as CSV.

To cite: tipsheet, “The broad dollar”, data to 2 Oct 2026, https://tipsheet.markets/i/broad-dollar/

Read it with

Brent crude 114.0above usual
Fed balance sheet 6,743below its record
US net liquidity 5,747above usual

the usual range: the middle half of all readingstodayEach line runs from the lowest reading ever to the highest.