Dollar profits from yield allure, Nikkei at one-year peak

Japan's Nikkei added 0.4 percent in early trade, while Australia's main index climbed to its highest in almost 17 months after Wall Street racked up more records. The dollar revelled in its rapidly widening yield premium, with the Federal Reserve set on a tightening course even as its peers in Europe and Japan act to keep their short-term rates deep in negative territory. The dollar index, which measures it against a basket of currencies, stood at 103.260 having touched 103.65 , its highest sinc