China puts a gun to world market’s head

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AUD is soft through the morning:

Bonds are bid. Long end yield looks like they may break lower:

XJO is off moderately:

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China has put a gun to world market’s head as CNY positively crashes:

Commodities will not be able to withstand it for long as emerging markets get shot to pieces. Dalian is down:

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Big miners too. The majors have a new round of double tops. FMG is back at $4.50 support. Falling CNY will kill them:

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Big Gas is down modestly:

Big Gold a bit more:

Big Mortgage continues its perverse twist. Even as profits get squeezed by BBSW, falling bond yields bid them up:

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Big Realty is weak:

So long as CNY falls you can expect red ink across world markets.

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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.