Australian dollar rocket cooks ASX

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Dalian is stable at the open today:

That’s not helping the ASX which continues to sink as the AUD rises:

Indeed there are two possible head and shoulders top patterns developing, one small and one much larger.

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Big Iron is listless:

Big Gas is getting hosed as brokers downgrade:

Big Gold is still charging but it’s a sell on strength given how oversold is the USD:

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Big Sleazy is not happy at all:

Thanks largely to Aussie yields pushing towards breakout on a big head and shoulders bottom pattern and beginning to flatten the curve, RBA or not:

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We’re mulling picking up some TIPS, not because we see inflation beyond the oil pop but because the market does.

Finally, Big Property looks very toppy indeed:

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The further the global inflation trade runs the worse it will get for the ASX.

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.