Bonds boom as RBA breaks

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The Aussie dollar is still falling after the RBA buckled today:

Bonds are booming and breaking out:

XJO is enjoying the lower dollar:

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Big Iron is running. This is the monthly chart. I’m wondering now if RIO won’t charge a record high before the crash:

Big Gas is down on the US inventory build:

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Big Gold is trading the metal not AUD today:

Big Banks have flamed out already after the CBA dud:

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Big Realty got nuthin’ from the RBA roll over:

Next question: will rate cuts even help house prices? I have my doubts.


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David Llewellyn-Smith is chief strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super which is long international equities and local bonds that will benefit from a weakening Australian economy and dollar.

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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.