Australian dollar, ASX spike on dismal data dump

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Don’t look for rationality here. The AUD jumped higher after a raft poor Australian data this morning in balance of payments, retail and government spending point to GDP around 2% tomorrow:

Bonds were nonsense as well, selling after the releases:

XJO is up and away:

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Basically, nobody cares. It’s risk on in the US today.

Nonetheless, Dalian is struggling to recover:

Big Iron is up but not convincing. FMG is a shorter’s dream as its epic descending triangle pattern forms. $4.50 is the base, if it breaks it’s awwn:

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Big Gas is bouncing with oil. Dead cat variety to me:

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Same for Big Gold:

Big Sleazy is bifurcating with the great mortgage centres falling away versus the marginally less so:

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Big Puswad is OK today but the trend is poor, especially for GMA:

Big Retail is mixed as RFG sinks from sight. DMP’s buy back is working wonders holding $40:

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Nothing there I want to buy.

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.