ASX hangs on for grim death

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Lol. It has become amusing to watch as the ASX hangs on like grim death to the bottom of its bearish descending triangle pattern:

No pattern is meaningful until it breaks but that’s pretty scary for a downside break.

Today it has been saved by UBS upgrading every miner in sight, not a great idea with China slowing:

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Big Gas is still getting hosed as ORG joins STO in the dog house:

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Big Gold has further to fall:

The Big Sleazy took fright at cratering retail:

And Big Liar is sagging too:

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It’s a scrotum-like bourse on the verge of deflation.

Some relief will come in time from the falling AUD when it realises how stupid the notion of rate hikes is. Bonds were bid hard after retail declared recession:

Households are dying…

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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.