Australian dollar clubbed into 0.73s as Trump mulls $200bn more tariffs

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New 14 month lows as the downtrend gathers new momentum:

And the trigger:

President Trump escalated his trade fight with China on Monday, saying the administration would identify another $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that could face 10 percent tariffs, the latest volley in a dispute with a country that the president said was determined to keep the United States “at a permanent and unfair disadvantage.”

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Not to worry. The RBA is out with minutes shortly and Futureboom! is coming.

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.