ASX staggers as Australian dollar goes ballistic

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A currency shock is being unleashed upon Australia:

How high it goes is anybody’s guess. I still say low 82-83 cents with DXY falling further yet as EUR powers on. But everything is sure getting overheated.

Dalian is falling:

The ASX is staggering under the load. Big Iron is trying but can’t get far:

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Big Gas is wilting despite the oil bounce:

Big Gold is at least turning as the DXY flight turns rout:

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Big bubble is struggling:

But Big Liar is running, I guess as the RBA can’t hike:

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Not that it was ever going to…

I am off on two weeks break today. So I wish you all the best. I can only urge one final time to take advantage of the Aussie as it flies towards a several standard deviation overvaluation straight into a domestic Australian slowing and Chinese bulk commodity tipping point. Here’s the latest Westpac chart:

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It ain’t going to last!

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Disclosure: I’m the strategist for the Macrobusiness Fund which is currently overweight international stocks. We also run an international equities fund. Both of these will benefit from a falling Australian dollar so I am definitely talking my own book.

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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.