Brace for 80 cent plus Australian dollar

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From Chris Weston:

AUD/USD has rallied 14% since the January lows (9% on a trade-weighted basis), helped by a number of factors. Anyone who aligns their trading bias to the underlying trend would see little reason to short the pair right now and the fundamental story clearly supports higher levels. The backdrop for AUD appreciation is about as good as it gets, so standing in the way of that is not something I am prepared to do. In fact, my preference is to stay long until proven wrong.

Specifically, the key supportive factors are:

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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.