Australian dollar crushed as spreads tank

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Hawkish Fed minutes and voila we’re on our way to the 71-handle:

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The US Australian bond spreads are collapsing again. Aussie yields were dragged a bit higher by the Fed:

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Us yileds all jumped:

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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.