ASX plunges with iron ore

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The Australian dollar is still holding around 77 cents:

Bonds are bid, especially at the long end:

XJO is down the better part of -2%:

Dalian has crashed:

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And Big Iron is going with it. FMG is about to test its $4.50 support. When it breaks look out below:

Big Gas is OK but is at risk too:

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Same with Big Gold:

Big Sleazy is getting caned as funding costs spike:

Big Retail is down solidly:

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And Big Puswad:

Tariffs are the story today but iron ore is going much lower anyway and the best laid plans of every economic manager are going to crash with it.

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.