Paris hits markets

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Paris is shaking up markets pretty modestly at this point. The Aussie dollar has gapped lower one third of a cent:

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Bonds have had some sense knocked into them pricing out rate hikes:

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Oil is up only very marginally:

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S&P500 futures are selling but not decisively:

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Big iron is being sold again with BHP down -1%, RIO down -2% and FMG down -1.3%:

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But big gas is being pounded with WPL down-1.25% and threatening technical breakdown as the press reports its ready to bid more for OSH which is itself down -0.7%, STO is down -2.27% and falling towards the abyss, so is ORG down -4.2% and and in the mid $4s, LNG is holding up for no apparent reason, up 8%, perhaps not actually having an LNG plant at this point is seen as value-adding:

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The broader market is working hard to hold 5000:

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Really, not much different to what we might have seen without Paris.

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.