Australian dollar launches as bonds price out rate cuts

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The one great thing about markets is they always offer second chances. A prime example is Australian bond and dollar pricing today. If you’ve been looking for a bullish entry point on the former or bearish entry point on the latter then here we are.

For the moment markets are pricing out imminent Fed rate hikes and a deteriorating China. There’s much more evidence for the former than the latter and, in truth, neither is going to last very long, but the narrative is throwing up some healthy reversals.

The Australian dollar took off 2% last night and breached 80 cents once more:

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.