Golden Finance reports that the US dollar further strengthened on the last trading day of 2024, reaching its highest level since November 2022. The New Zealand dollar and Australian dollar lagged behind other currencies. The Bloomberg Dollar Index rose by 0.4%, with an annual increase of nearly 8%, marking the best annual performance since 2015, due to a robust US economy and the expectation that the tax cuts and tariffs proposed by President-elect Donald Trump would keep interest rates high.