Cause of rise of USD in 2005?

For most of 2005 the dollar trended upward and then in 2006 continued in the down direction. Any fundamental reason for this?

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rudenstein

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thank you, as always

I believe the cause for the rise in USD was the rise in the Fed interest rate.