Big gas explodes. Time to buy?

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Big gas is getting absolutely smashed today. WPL is down -3% to a post-GFC low and OSH is -17%, STO is down -10% to a new post-GFC low, ORG is down -9% to a post-GFC low and LNG is down -16% to a post-GFC low (BHP is also down -5%):

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On the monthly chart we can see that STO and ORG are both back to 2003 prices, my target. I personally think that LNG is doomed:

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Time to buy? Nope.

In my view, Brent oil is headed for a tremendous final washout as a part of the mining GFC. As well as that, the great LNG contract smash is ahead, as well as the mother of all asset impairment cycles.

I do not think that STO will survive it, nor will ORG in its current form.

The time to buy will be when the mining GFC is pulling down national economies, not just individual firms.

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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.