Australian dollar pretends there’s no iron ore crash

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There’s no iron ore crash. And another thing, there’s NO iron ore crash. So says the Australian dollar today as it rises (as it does every single day in Asia for some reason):

Bonds are bid again:

As XJO is shellacked:

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The problem being that there is an ongoing iron ore crash with Dalian swooning:

Which is going to destroy Big Iron in due course. FMG is very amusing above $7:

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Big Gas is OK but also headed for trouble with oil in my view:

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Big Gold has blown off and corrected a little:

Big Banks are locked inside a fat declining channel:

Big Realty still believes in ScoMo though:

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As iron ore falls so does fair value for the Australian dollar, via Westpac:

It is only a matter of time.

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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.