Big Iron holds on, Big Gas powers on, Big Gold stepped on

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Big Iron hasn’t got the Chinese tightening and rising US dollar memo. BHP is flat, RIO -0.5% and FMG 0.2%:

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If I were holding FMG that double-toppy chart would be keeping me awake at night, especially as China resumes trade next week into a clearly co-ordinated and national property tightening.

Big Gas is still loving the OPEC smoke and mirrors act with WPL 0.9%, OSH 1.6%, ORG flat and STO -1.3% and still suffering from rights issue fever:

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As much as I’d like to get bullish on these stocks I still can’t given the OPEC drivel, looming Japanese contractpocalypse and the passing US hurricane.

Big Gold is finally seeing a decent sell-off though it’s still pretty shallow with NCM -2.5%, RRL -3.5%, IGO flat, SBM -3.6% and EVN -0.2%:

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Probably more downside yet with US dollar looking very firm.

Big Debt is going nowhere. Perhaps most noteworthy is how much Megabank has re-converged:

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Given it’s one giant building society you’d expect nothing else.

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.