By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar rose Asia on Friday after hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation and hawkish comments from a Federal Reserve official unleashed a wave of bets on aggressive rate hikes, though similar pressures worldwide kept a lid on gains. Thursday data showed U.S. consumer prices up 7.5% year-on-year in January, a fourth straight month above 6% and slightly higher than economists’ forecasts for a 7.3% rise. After that, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard told Bloomberg he’d like to see 100 basis points of hikes by July. Treasury yields leapt and the dollar ju…