Australian dollar defies limit down iron ore

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The Australian dollar is up a little today as the RBA described a deteriorating property market. Not sure how that makes sense:

Bonds worked it out a little better being well bid:

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XJO is down moderately despite rising US futures:

That may be because iron ore is limit down in Dalian:

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Coking coal is a little better:

Which has started to weigh on WBC’s fair value model for the AUD:

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And has taken Big Iron to the cleaners:

While Big Oil has gone to the woodshed:

Big Gold is off:

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But Big Banks are still getting some dead cat action as falling yields boosts their appeal:

Big Realty can’t catch a bid though:

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It’s all a bit schizophrenic today.

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.