US jobs send stock markets into ecstasy

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The very firm US jobs report on Friday left an interesting imprint on markets. The US dollar barely budged:

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Yen was strong, yuan and euro weak:

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Commodity currencies went nuts as risk poured on:

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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.