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In fact, the entire bourse is hovering at the brink if you ask me, unable to rally on good news. Banks are really weak with CBA -0.5%, WBC -0.9%, NAB -0.9%, ANZ -0.6%, BOQ -1%, SUN -0.5%, BEN -0.4% and MQG -0.5%:

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CBA continues to hover at the $70 brink of the monstrous head and shoulders top:

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Meanwhile, iron is also stalled though up today with BHP 1.2%, RIO 1.4% and FMG 2.8%. Dalian has opened down -1% as it loses some of Friday night’s stupid Son of Bree rally:

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But big gas is definitely under-performing the oil rebound (which is up another 1% this morning) with WPL 1.7%, OSH 2.1%, ORH 2.5%, STO 3.1% and LNG 1%:

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WPL typifies the bourse as oil hits new highs it keeps hitting new lows:

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All it is going to take is a little push and this bourse is going to sink. What I can’t tell you is if that push is about to arrive….

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.