Credit Suisse: Buy Australian dollars!

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From the CS forex team:

After a soggy start to 2018, AUD could finally have its time in the sun.

The currency has suffered from being a favoured short against Emerging Market long positions, due to its now-low carry and perceived high correlation with the emerging market bloc. But with iron ore prices having seemingly based already, and LNG export sentiment boosted by rallying oil prices, the market may feel compelled to scale back its bearishness on the currency.

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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.