Buy dirt, sell debt

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The Aussie dollar is off during the day:

Bond yields have retreated as well raising the prospect of false breakout for the two year:

XJO is falling modestly:

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Dalian is down given it priced the Chinese stimulus long ago:

But Big Iron never did. RIO is ecstatic. FMG not so much:

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Big Gas is off:

Big Gold is getting a sniff. It could be a very short term play over the next few months into the US mid-terms:

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Big Mortgage is a bust. Herein lies the problem for rising yields:

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Big Realty is fading:

When China stimulates it’s buy dirt and sell debt. It may seem a stupid binary but it’s all that matters to 90% of Aussie fundies!

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.