Goldman joins the Australian dollar 80 cents rush

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It’s becoming something of a rush, from Bloomberg:

The Australian dollar is likely to extend its rally toward 80 U.S. cents and that’s when investors should consider betting against it, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

The currency has shrugged off half a percentage point of interest-rate cuts from the Reserve Bank of Australia and climbed 4.9 percent this year to 76.44 cents as of 5 p.m. on Friday in Sydney. Philip Moffitt, who heads the fund manager’s Asia-Pacific fixed-income team, said the central bank could get “nervous” around the 78-to-80 cent mark.

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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.