Aussie dollar crushed as bonds move deeper into recession pricing

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The RBA is about effective as a flee in a gale right now. The AUD has been bashed through the morning following the RBNZ beaut plus Chinese industrial profits falling the most since 2011:

Bonds have hit all new highs at the long end as the deflationist RBA holds up the short:

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The result is a fast flattening curve beginning to sing shrilly of recession:

Needless to say, XJO doesn’t like it:

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Dalian is a nothing burger but Big Iron is up:

Big Gas is mixed:

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Big Gold down:

Big Banks are sinking:

Big Realty is mixed with REA targeting as retest at $70 within a bearish descending triangle:

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A whiff of panic 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.