No, AFR, the Australian dollar is not a “safe haven”

Advertisement

Cripes this is wrong:

Jamieson Coote Bonds executive director Charlie Jamieson said rather than its conventional status as a commodity-linked risk asset, the Aussie had become “somewhat of a flight-to-quality currency” amid recent Brexit-related volatility.

This was largely due to the country’s relatively high interest rates and triple-A rating by the three main credit rating agencies.

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
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.