Possibly the most pathetic bank short squeeze in history

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AUD is up a bit this morning:

Bonds are selling:

XJO is up moderately:

And it is all about dirt. Big Iron is flying as BHP gives back wads of cash from exiting shale oil. A nicely timed buy for the MB Fund:

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Big Gas is mixed:

Big Gold in pain still:

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But today’s great squibbing is banks which have failed to fire as the decks are cleared of bad news, which makes one wonder if the decks have been cleared at all. The record low bad debt provisions announced show zero awareness or pricing of the building property bust and are fooling nobody.

Which Big Realty is beginning to wake up to:

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There’s so much property pain ahead that it’s hard to know where to look…

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.