Dithering RBA whacks Australian dollar

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After today’s longest RBA minutes in living memory, the Australian dollar fell away. Who can say if it was the obvious fact that they’re going to have to cut rates or it was just the market’s vote of disgust at a dithering fool:

Bonds are bid:

And stocks:

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Big Iron is just loving China’s swiftly developing war on Australia:

Though BLK is waking up to what it means:

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Big Gas hasn’t priced Labor at all:

Big Gold is still strong:

Big Banks are up again as profit growth is consigned to history:

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Big Realty is firming too as an historic housing crash bears down:

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Aaaand…the market can stay irrational for longer than…etc…

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.