Australia dollar hammered as US bond spreads contract

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The Aussie “bondcano” has stalled:

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Not so the US with short end yields right at the verge of a breakout to new highs on daily charts. The monthly is already well clear:

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Oddly, the US yield curve remains very unconvincing:

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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.