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The ASX two day boomlet has fallen over today, down 1.4% as I write. It started badly but then got worse with the good jobs number:

I guess the market was sneakily readying for more rate cuts. Not yet.

Meanwhile, Dalian is stable:

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But Big Iron is getting slammed (even coconut vendor RIO):

As oil falls so do mining input costs and a deflationary loop forms for the commodity price deck…

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Speaking of which, Big Gas is being mauled:

STO going to new lows…

Big Gold’s uptrend looks even better today as global lowflation returns:

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But for banks, the collapsing yield curve is baaad:

Big Liar just doing its thing:

Hard to say what happens immediately from here but a higher Aussie is nobody’s friend.

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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.