Australian dollar missile as US bond yields tank

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The Glenn Greenspan agenda is on track this morning with the dollar launching at 93 cents last night before pulling back to 92.5:

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The proximate cause remains the same: Glennspan’s embrace of a higher currency and house prices and, internationally, the US bond flattening, which is now royally confirmed with an aggressive long bond bid plunging yields through support at 3.54% to 3.5%:

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It took the 10 year with it, also bid strongly with yields tumbling 1.3% to 2.66%:

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It’s rising channel is still intact, offering some hope but, by crikey, if it keeps being bid and we get a little more promising cyclical data in Australia then the spread to the Australian 10 year is primed to blow out and the Australian dollar is off the 95 cents:

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The great tradables hollowing out has resumed, only now we’re not making room for a surge in resources investment, where making room for further inflation of the housing bubble.

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.