Mining GFC 2.0 rumbles again

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It’s baaack. After just one day of approval to the imminent Yellen rate hike, markets are now on the run. The US dollar was firm at new highs:

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Other majors fell:

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Commodity currencies were weak:

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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.